At least 70,000 Syrians fled the southern parts of Aleppo due to the Syrian government offensive with Russian air strikes on rebels, according to Dr Zaidoun al-Zoabi, the head of the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organisations. Dr. al-Zoabi said that several villages he had visited were empty and he saw thousands of people have fled without shelters or medical supports. “The shelling is so ...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced plans of new laws by mid-2016 which will ban merchants from imposing unfair credit card surcharges. The plan is response to the financial system inquiry made by former Commonwealth Bank boss David Murray, which recommends a new three system of surcharging, with a total ban on surcharges for debit cards and a cap on levies for using Visa and MasterCard. Under the ...

Hungary shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of migrants on Saturday, adding another hurdle in their frantic flight from wars and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia toward what they hope is a better life in Western Europe. The closure prompted Croatia to redirect thousands of people — including women and small children soaked ...

Israeli authorities reported three Palestinians pulling knives then being shot dead, as the spate of violence afflicting Israelis and Palestinians continued Saturday. But the Palestinian version of the day’s violence was different. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA mentioned no knives and said Israelis simply shot two Palestinians dead. Neither side related its accounts to those reported by the other ...

Sitting on a shabby green sofa somewhere in the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, Iraq, the militants laugh and joke as one of them films their excited chatter. “Today is the female sex slave market day, which has been ordained,” explains a skinny, black-clad Jihadi, gesturing at the camera. “With Allah’s permission, each will get a share,” promises another of the ...

It’s hard not to feel slightly superior when you belong to the only human species on the planet. Behind us there is a long track of extinct relatives that did not make it to our days. The Neanderthals in Europe went extinct some 40,000 years ago, just as we got there – leading us to believe we forced them out ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said he would be “perfectly open” to meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in order to end weeks of Israeli-Palestinian unrest. The Palestinian president has ignited an uproar in Israel after falsely claiming that Israel had “executed” a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who is recovering in an Israeli hospital, drawing new accusations that he ...

Two Palestinian teenagers stabbed an Israeli boy in northern Jerusalem on Monday, according to police. Medical officials said the 2 teenagers, aged 12 and 15, were killed near Khan Younis. Four Israelis and 26 Palestinians, including eight attackers and eight children, have died in 12 days of bloodshed in Jerusalem. The heightened tension between Israelis and Palestinians has triggered by increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa ...

Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that NATO will help one of the member countries Turkey if they needed. Mr. Stoltenberg said, “Turkey is a strong ally and they have the second-largest army.” “They have a capable air force, so the Turkish armed forces are the first responders, but NATO is there to help and assist them if they ...

A Somali woman, aged 23, is reportedly more than 12 weeks pregnant, has been brought to Australia for treatment after being raped in the Nauruan community. Her lawyer George Newhousee said, “Our client is relieved that there has been a resolution to this sensitive matter. She is now in Australia and the Commonwealth Government has agreed to provide her with medical treatment.” “Our client has ...