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Syrian workers in Raqqa have unearthed a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies of civilians and Islamic State fighters
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said this meant an average of 123 civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period
Kenya has recently declared giraffes critically endangered and launched a recovery plan to fight habitat loss, poaching and disease
The high cost of food in Venezuela and constant shortages have forced many Venezuelans to rummage through trash to find something to eat
Following the reports, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS,) which has been tasked with the ‘Protection of Civilians’ mandate, intensified patrols in the areas where the attacks were reported to have taken place, and at the same time redeployed engineers to work on clearing roads leading to paths women used to walk to collect food
According to the CSIS report, compared with 2017, IS attacks against Iraqi government targets increased in 2018. The terror group has been carrying out an average of 78 attacks per month
Nancy Grace Roman, one of the first female scientists at NASA. She is known to many as the “Mother of the Hubble” for her role in developing the Hubble Space Telescope
Syrian refugee Walaa Abdelkareem was born with a congenital heart defect, a condition caused by a lack of oxygenated blood and heart structure
Ismail’s swimming coach is also a skiing instructor, and he introduced his student to the sport. He took to it immediately. “No matter how cold it is, it’s never enough for him,” Ismail’s father says
Zimbabwe’s economy has been ailing since the early 2000s when the country’s farm sector went into a nosedive. Both cash and basic goods are increasingly in short supply, prompting calls for the government to fix the situation