At least 11 killed as army's clashes with central Congo militia persist
Similar clashes in recent months have killed hundreds and uprooted tens of thousands
Malaysian aid ship to help Rohingyas arrives in Bangladesh
70,000 Rohingya have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar's Rakhine State to Bangladesh to escape a crackdown
Yemen cancer patients struggle to survive war shortages
The conflict is forcing health staff to work without pay and undercutting patients' ability to afford their own treatment
Rights group says Pakistan has 'forced' mass Afghan refugee returns
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees left Pakistan in what Human Rights Watch called the "world's largest unlawful mass forced return of refugees in recent times"
Crumbling California dam spillway prompts urgent evacuations
A spillway on the Lake Oroville Dam could give way and unleash raging floodwaters onto a string of rural communities along the Feather River
Myanmar to probe police over allegations of crimes against Rohingya
U.N. says Myanmar's security forces committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages
U.N. air strikes in Central African Republic kill several - militia
"We were looking to prevent war in Bambari"
Coalition air strikes killed 18 Afghan civilians, U.N. says
Civilian casualties from both American and Afghan air strikes increased dramatically last year
UN chief affirms full support for Yemen peace envoy
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has served as UN Yemen envoy since April 2015, has brokered several ceasefires in conflict that has killed more than 10,000 people
Inter-Shi'ite tension mounts in Baghdad after clashes
Demonstrators killed by bullets; suffered choking