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UNICEF: Over 500,000 Yemeni children face severe malnutrition

Wednesday, 18 November 2015 6:02 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 6:02 AM ]

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1. A report by the Associated Press shows that more than 1,200 Europeans who joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq have returned home in the past two years. French officials estimate that currently some 520 of their citizens are fighting alongside extremist groups in the two Arab nations.

2. French police have intensified a nationwide manhunt to find the suspects behind last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris. 115,000 forces have also been mobilized across the nation. Meanwhile, Belgium says it will raise to more than five hundred the number of soldiers helping police secure its cities.

3. A friendly football match between Germany and the Netherlands has been cancelled over a bomb threat. Police sources say they had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set-off an explosive device at the Hanover Stadium. The match was meant to honor the victims of last week’s terror attacks in Paris.

4. The Russian foreign minister says an analysis of U-S airstrikes in Syria shows that they have been discriminative, and in most cases have not harmed ISIL. Sergey Lavrov also says Washington has been using the terrorist group to weaken the Syrian government.

5. Iran’s president has said the goal of the Daesh terrorists is to create a wave of Islamophobia across the globe. Hassan Rouhani said acts of terror should not be used as a pretext to expand Islamophobia. He called for identifying the sources from which Daesh receives funds to carry out terrorist attacks.

6. Police in the US city of Minneapolis have arrested dozens of people following the second day of protests over the fatal police shooting of a black man. The 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who was shot in the head over the weekend, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.

7. A US drone attack has killed at least eight people in eastern Afghanistan. The airstrike took place in Nangarhar province. Local officials say all those killed were government opponents riding a tricycle. US drone strikes have killed many people in Afghanistan over the past few years.

8. The United Nations children’s agency has warned that more than 500,000 children are facing life-threatening malnutrition in Yemen. UNICEF says the current situation will affect the children both physically and mentally and it will continue to worsen. The UN says 80 percent of Yemenis are on the brink of famine.

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