China evacuates 127,000 people as heavy rains lash Guangdong - Xinhua
China is forced to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents of flood-prone regions every summer
U.S. halts funding to U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the decision as "a flagrant assault against the Palestinian people"
Ebola control measures seem to be working in Congo, WHO says
Substantial risks remain
One million Syrian children in Idlib at risk if assault mounted - UNICEF
Many families in Idlib have been uprooted multiple times, evacuated as front lines shift
TIMELINE-Syria's years of blood
The first protests against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 quickly spread across the country, and were met by security forces with a wave of arrests and shootings
Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece -lawyer
Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling
Situation at "boiling point" at Greek refugee centre, UN says
More than 7,000 asylum-seekers and migrants - a quarter of them children - are crammed into shelters at the island's Moria reception centre, built for 2,000
Situation at 'boiling point' at refugee centre on Greek island -UN
Lesbos was the preferred entry point into the European Union in 2015 for nearly a million Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis
Myanmar military releases 75 child soldiers from service
Myanmar has now discharged 924 underage recruits since signing up to a joint action plan on child soldiers with U.N. agencies in June 2012
U.N. calls on China to free Uighurs from alleged re-education camps
Up to one million Uighurs may be held involuntarily in extra-legal detention in China's far western Xinjiang province