U.N. seeks 'massive' help for Rohingya fleeing Myanmar 'ethnic cleansing'
Numerous Rohingya villages in the north of Rakhine have been torched but authorities have denied that security forces or Buddhist civilians set the fires
Feminist icons join bid to upend Congo's rape capital reputation
More than 400,000 women are raped in Congo every year
India to offer jobs to manual sand miners after deaths exposé
Authorities in western India have begun the process of offering alternative work to men risking their lives illegally mining sand, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in July uncovered at least two deaths in the past year.
UN investigating leaked sex abuse complaints in Central African Republic
The U.N.'s 10,000-strong mission in Central African Republic has been dogged by accusations of sex abuse since it deployed in 2014
Suicide attacks on restaurants, checkpoint, kill 60 in southern Iraq
"After losing the war in Iraq and the shrinking of its power, Daesh returned back to its old style of an insurgency, by carrying out suicide attacks, which is a clear sign that the terrorist group is retreating"
Is your chocolate bar fuelling deforestation in West Africa?
Large area of forest reserves in Ivory Coast have been converted to illegal cocoa plantations to meet demand, campaign group says
Mexico steps up to unique triple disaster threat
Mexico has been working to improve its early warning systems and disaster risk management for over three decades
Millions at risk of water shortages as Asian glaciers melt - study
More than one billion people across Asia depend on rivers like the Yangtze, Ganges and Mekong, which are fed by Himalayan glaciers
EU sticks to Libya strategy on migrants, despite human rights concerns
"Some of the methods may seem controversial. But there is also preventing loss of life at the sea and political stability in Italy to consider"