Kenya’s cholera epidemic has reached the world’s largest refugee camp and doctors worry the outbreak could continue to spread. Seven people have died in Dadaab, in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, since the outbreak was declared in November, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said in a statement. In the last three weeks, more than 300 ...

Russia will use more advanced military force against terror groups in Syria “if necessary,” President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. His comments came a day after the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution that supports an international effort to find a political solution to the 5-year-old civil war in Syria. Russia has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but the United ...

North Korea sentenced a Canadian pastor Wednesday to life in prison “for subversive plots and activities,” according to its state news agency. The official news agency KCNA reported that the Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim “confessed to all heinous crimes he had committed.” The report accused Lim of having “committed anti-DPRK religious activities, conducted false propaganda among overseas Koreans, and took ...

An engineer at Mumbai airport died after being sucked into the engine of an Air India plane, the company said. The deadly incident happened late Wednesday as the Airbus A319 was being towed backward from the parking bay in preparation for taxiing out, said Anil Mehta, an Air India official. The engineer, Ravi Subramanian, was standing near the landing gear ...

One of six men convicted of taking part in the savage 2012 gang rape of an Indian physiotherapy student on a moving Delhi bus was released Sunday after completing his full three-year sentence behind bars, an Indian government official said. He had participated in the most heinous of acts, but because he was just shy of his 18th birthday on ...

Republican front-runner Donald Trump fired back at Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton after she said ISIS was using video of his comments about Muslims and Islam as a recruiting tool. During the Democratic presidential debate Saturday night, Clinton alleged Trump was “becoming ISIS’ best recruiter” based on his call to ban Muslims from entering the country, and other recent comments. “They ...

North African jihadist group al-Murabitun has declared its allegiance to al Qaeda, swelling the ranks of that terror group in its rivalry with ISIS for African adherents. “We declare that we are joining to our brothers in al Qaeda organization in Islamic Maghreb to stand in one line against the occupying crusaders,” said al-Murabitun spokesman Abu Dujana Al Qasmi in ...

The Nigerian army has arrested Boko Haram’s “chief cameraman,” the army said in a statement Saturday. Abdullahi Abubakar Sadiq was arrested in the town of Uba, in Nigeria’s northwestern Borno state, according to the statement. He was number 58 on the list of the 100 most-wanted Boko Haram suspects, which was released earlier this year by the military. Suspect number ...

The African Union is planning to send 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians in strife-torn Burundi and has given the government there 96 hours to respond to the proposed mission, officials said Friday. The proposed peacekeepers, however, still require the authorization of the United Nations Security Council. The African Union issued a decision this week that strongly condemned “all acts of ...

Standing at the edge of a tiny marina on the Greek island of Lesbos, two strangers are clinging to one another. They do not know each other’s names. They don’t speak the same language. But they are locked in an embrace as if they are mother and daughter. “She wouldn’t let go of me. She just felt safe, so we ...