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Red Cross repatriates 128 Yemen rebels from Saudi Arabia

Return of Houthi prisoners to capital, Sanaa, comes two days after the Saudi-led military coalition announced freeing 200 Houthis, a decision the UN hailed.

Palestinians protest US settlement decision in 'day of rage'

Palestinians burn effigies of US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, as thousands protest against a shift in Washington's policy on Israeli illegal settlements.

Dorian hovers over Bahamas, kills five

Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic daylong halt over the northwest Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water that lapped into the second storeys of buildings. The storm spurred evacuations in southeastern US.

Dorian kills five in Bahamas, US evacuates coast

Hurricane Dorian battered the islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama, killing at least five people, peeling off roofs, toppling cars and snapping power lines as rising floodwater threatened to engulf houses.

The great fall of foreign labour in Lebanon

Migrants and refugees in Lebanon work under extremely tough, and often cruel, conditions. Now, the government has added to their misery by clamping down on their status in the country.

Famous annual Spanish bull run festival ends with further accidents

Eight runners were hospitalised, three of them with goring injuries, on the last day of the annual San Fermin bull-running festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona.

Politics and mistrust of foreigners slows fight against Ebola

People in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have linked the response to the Ebola outbreak with political disenfranchisement making it harder for foreign organisations to contain the outbreak.

Six dead, dozens missing in Uganda landslides - Red Cross

Around 50 people believed to be missing after heavy rains triggered a series of landslides in eastern Uganda's mountainous Bududa district on Tuesday night.

First Red Cross aid arrives in Venezuela

The International Federation of Red Cross confirmed that medicine and supplies to treat patients landed in Caracas after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government gave approval.

ICRC suspends work in Afghanistan after Taliban 'ban'

Afghan Taliban banned WHO and the Red Cross activities for what they said were "suspicious" actions during vaccination campaigns, as polio is still crippling the country.

Aid workers scramble to get relief supplies to Mozambique cyclone victims

The WFP has declared the flood crisis in Mozambique a level three emergency, putting it on a par with Yemen, Syria and South Sudan.

'There is death all over': Cyclone Idai toll rises above 500

Torrential rains were expected to continue into Thursday and floodwaters were still rising, according to aid groups trying to get food, water and clothing to desperate survivors.