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Concerns are rising for the safety of civilians living in and around the northern coastal city of Hudaida, where Yemeni troops backed by the Saudi-led coalition are aiming to take control of a stra...
The family separation policy is an aspect of immigration under the Trump administration, begun in 2018, that involves prosecuting all adults, including those applying for asylum, apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Under the policy, termed "zero tolerance", Federal authorities separate children from their parents, relatives, or other adults who accompanied them in crossing the border. Parents are sent to federal jails while children and infants are placed under the supervision of the Department of Health and Human Services. [1]
Turkish citizens will be voting on June 24 in election to select the new members of parliament, and, more significantly, to elect a president with increased powers.
Amendments made to the constitution last year will give the new president substantial executive powers compared to the mostly symbolic role the office in the current parliamentary system.
In contrast, the powers of the cabinet and parliament, which are currently the main executive and legislative branches in Turkish political system, will be reduced.
The parliament moved the election, originally scheduled for November 3, 2019, forward by more than a year in April.
The race will take place under a state of emergency that has been ongoing since a coup attempt against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016.
Here is all you need to know about the upcoming key election.
Saudi-Emirati coalition warplanes pound areas south of Yemen’s main port, Hudaida. As pro-government troops close in on the city, Iran-backed Houthi rebels remain defiant. The UN is urging restraint, fearing if the port is closed it puts eight million Yemenis at risk of starvation.But is there any hope of a diplomatic solution?
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Young Aborigines are four times more likely to commit suicide than non-indigenous Australians. Experts and Aboriginal elders believe a variety of reasons drive Aboriginal youth to suicide, includin...
For over three years, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS) controlled and terrorised large swaths of northern Iraq.
The high-profile case of the death in police custody of French teenager Adama Traoré in 2016 sparked wide-spread protests across the whole of the greater Paris region.
The Chinese authorities call them the "low-end population" - thousands of rural migrant workers who flee the poverty of rural China for better-paid jobs in metropolises like Beijing.
Two decades ago, the small Balkan state of Kosovo was fighting to secede from neighbouring Serbia, which was resisting the final break-up of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Many of Morocco's nomadic communities living across the Atlas Mountains, like the Ait Atta tribe, are gradually changing their way of life from roaming herders to part settlers - or what sociologis...
It was a daring raid. Tens of millions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh's central bank via the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, transferred to accounts in the Philippines and then laundered throu...
When Japanese journalist Ryuichi Hirokawa went to Israel in 1967 to work on a kibbutz, he was fascinated by the idea of a farming community based on socialist principles. He wanted to work there an...