Reuters, Cairo
Food security in the Middle East and North Africa is quickly deteriorating because of conflict in several countries in the region, the United Nations said on Thursday.
In those hardest hit by crises-Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Sudan-an average of more than a quarter of the population was undernourished, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization said in its annual report on food security.
Brainwashed ISIS children back in UK
PTI. London
Hundreds of British citizens who returned to the UK from war-torn Syria and Iraq have brought back children brainwashed by the ISIS terror group with them, a new report warned today.
The UK Parliament’s influential Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which published its annual report, has warned of the “complications” of “children growing up inside the so- called ‘Caliphate’, educated and indoctrinated by Daesh [ISIS]”.
16 feared dead after South Korean fire
AP, Seoul
A fire broke out Thursday at an eight-story building in the central South Korean city of Jecheon, leaving one person confirmed dead and 15 others unresponsive and presumed dead, South Korean officials said.
A fire department official from North Chungcheong province said the status of the 15 had not yet been confirmed by doctors. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing office rules.
The official said at least 16 others are being treated for injuries, and rescue workers are searching the building for people after extinguishing the fire.
Bus slams into trailer in Pakistan, killing 11
AP, Multan
Police say a speeding passenger bus has collided with a parked long trailer on a highway in central Pakistan where heavy fog limited visibility, killing 11 people and wounding 20 others.
A local motorway police official, Talat Mahmood, says the accident happened Thursday near the town of Khanewal, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of the city of Multan in the Punjab province.
Coalition raids hit Yemen rebels
AFP, Sanaa
The Saudi-led coalition conducted multiple air raids in Yemen on Wednesday, a day after Huthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh in an attack Washington said was enabled by Iran.
The Saudi-led strikes killed 11 civilians in the Huthi stronghold of Saada, a tribal chief and witnesses said, while unidentified assailants attacked Huthis guarding the Sanaa residence of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed by the Shiite rebels earlier this month.
