Syria will abide by "de-escalation" plan -foreign minister
The deal for de-escalation zones came into effect at midnight on Friday, but some fighting has continued.
Demobilised rebels block road to Ivory Coast's second city
The soldiers, some wearing balaclavas or their faces blackened with ashes, set up barricades, sealing off the main road leading south to Abidjan and the capital Yamoussoukro.
Ethnic violence, humanitarian crisis deepen in Congo - UN
Some 100,000 people were uprooted last week alone, bringing the ranks of displaced in the central Kasai region to nearly 1.3 million
WIDER IMAGE-Besieged Syrians battle fuel shortages by recycling
As the siege intensified, severe fuel shortages began to hamper agriculture, transport and other activities
Hundreds of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean over weekend - survivors
About 7,500 people have been rescued off the coast of Libya since Thursday
War forces 2 million South Sudanese children to flee homes
The fighting has created Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Yemen cholera outbreak kills 25 people in a week - WHO
A child aged under five dies of preventable causes every 10 minutes in Yemen
INTERVIEW- Civilians complicate final phase of Mosul campaign - U.S. commander
"There is nowhere to go.... the battlefield is much more complicated with the amount of civilians that are moving"
Syrian rebels start leaving Damascus district under evacuation deal
Fighters and their relatives start departing Barzeh for rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria.
Syria says up to 5,000 Chinese Uighurs fighting in militant groups
Rights groups and Uighur exiles say many Uighurs have fled to Turkey simply to escape Chinese repression at home.