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800,000 children forced to flee homes in Nigeria: UNICEF
Young women and girls are being subjected to forced marriage, forced labour and rape, while students and teachers are being deliberately targeted.
UAE convicts 28 over 'sex and alcohol' boat party
Twenty-eight men and women have been fined or jailed for attending an alcohol-fuelled sex party on a yacht in Dubai, reports said on Monday.
German aviation watchdog did not know crash pilot's medical history
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a mountain in the French Alps.
Benjamin Netanyahu demands Iran nuclear deal include recognising Israel
While calling the emerging deal a bad one, he said the choice was not only between a bad deal or war.
Indian couple found dead in Sri Lanka
An Indian couple was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel in Colombo on Friday, prompting Sri Lankan police to launch an investigation.
147 dead as al-Shabab gunmen attack Garissa University: Kenya interior minister
It was by far the highest death toll in an attack by al-Shabab, an Islamic extremist group from neighboring Somalia, on Kenyan soil.
Cabin video shows Germanwings airliner passengers screaming in final seconds: media reports
The recording lasting just a few seconds showed that passengers knew what was happening to them before the plane slammed into a mountain.
Boko Haram kills 41, prevents hundreds voting in Nigeria
All the Boko Haram attacks took place in northeastern Nigeria, where the military Friday announced it had cleared the Islamic extremists from all major centers, including the headquarters of their so-called Islamic caliphate.
Co-pilot of Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps took sole control of plane and intentionally started descent: Officials
The statement came after the New York Times reported that "black box" recordings showed one of the pilots had left the cockpit and could not get back in before the plane crashed, killing all 150 onboard.
Iran calls Saudi airstrikes in Yemen 'dangerous step'
Pakistan, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan were also joining the operation, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.
Afghan president says need to find way to say 'sorry' to Taliban
Officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan said in February that the Afghan Taliban had signalled they were willing to open peace talks with Kabul.
Russia proposes ICT group for BRICS: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Russia's minister for telecom and mass communications Nikolai Nikiforov met Prasad and conveyed the proposal regarding the group on Information and Communications Technology in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping.
Germanwings forced to cancel flights after Airbus A320 crash
Meanwhile, a black box has been recovered from the scene and pulverized pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides.
India under Modi's leadership driving optimism across South Asia: US
The US has said India's resurgence under the new leadership was driving energy and optimism across South Asia.
German students, teachers weep for 16 classmates on doomed Airbus A320
The 10th grade students from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school were on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange programme at the Institut Giola in Llinars del Vallès near Barcelona.
IS trains hundreds of child soldiers in Syria: report
"IS officials try to woo children with money, weapons and teaching them how to drive cars," the monitoring body said.