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
Move over malaria: Mosquitoes carrying Zika, dengue may thrive in warmer Africa
Hotter weather and migration to cities may make different diseases the scourge of the future in Africa, scientists say
Iraqis track abandoned homes with digital tools
More than 60 percent of displaced people use digital tools like Facebook, camera phones and messaging apps to actively monitor the status of their properties
How technology is providing a lifeline in natural disasters
How robots, drones and other innovations can transform emergency relief operations
U.N. peacekeepers pressed to do more with less as further cuts loom
Missions dogged by lack of accountability
Global hunger rises for first time in decade - U.N. agencies
Asia has the largest number of hungry people - 520 million - and sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of hungry, affecting 20 percent of the population
FACTBOX-Global hunger rises for first time in a decade - U.N. agencies
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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"
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"
Red Cross halts aid to swathe of South Sudan after staff member killed
The suspension affects more than 22,000 people about to get aid deliveries, including more than 5,000 farmers due to receive seeds in an area on the edge of famine