Kurdish city gassed by Saddam hopes referendum heralds better days
Kurdish independence vote will be a bittersweet moment for the people of Halabja, a city of 75,000 people still facing the after-effects of the attack by Iraqi government forces in 1988
First refugees taken from offshore detention under U.S. refugee swap deal
"They're happy they're going, and they never want to hear about Australia again"
In Canada, climate change could open new farmland to the plow
As global warming intensifies droughts and floods, causing crop failures, Canada may see something different: a farming expansion
Fears of dam collapse add to Puerto Rico's misery after hurricane
Some 70,000 people live in a cluster of communities under evacuation downstream from the dam on the rain-swollen Guajataca River
Hopes for Mexico quake survivors dim as search enters 6th day
Aftershocks on Saturday spread fear among Mexico's traumatized population, and a plume of ash spewed from the Popocatepetl volcano in another reminder of the country's volatile geology
Deadly aftershock, volcanic ash spread alarm in Mexico
At some sites, soldiers and volunteers continued efforts to reach victims, even after seismic alarms rang out to warn of the most recent earthquake on Saturday
Buddhist mistrust of foreign aid workers hampers relief for Myanmar's Rohingya
The ethnic Rakhine majority have long complained that foreign aid agencies have given generously to Muslims while ignoring other equally needy people
National celebrations open Saudi sports stadium to women for first time
"God willing, tomorrow women will be permitted bigger and better things like driving and travel."
UNHCR chief meets with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camp
More than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since August 25
Few ideas, less hope leave Syria crisis on back burner at U.N.
"You don't have the U.S. and the Europeans around the table and that is a huge defeat for all of us," said French President Emmanuel Macron