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Droughts and heatwaves

29 Apr 2016
Water levels in Vietnam’s Mekong delta, a region that accounts for 50% of the country's rice and fruit production, 90% of its rice exports and 60% of shrimp and fish exports, are at their lowest levels…

Australia: Queensland government and safe schools

29 Apr 2016
The Queensland government has ignored community concerns surrounding the controversial Safe Schools programme, refusing to release the names of schools that are teaching children that their gender is fluid. The media is reporting an increased focus…

Nigeria: a midnight raid

29 Apr 2016
On Sunday night, in Enugu State, an attack by more than two hundred suspected armed Fulani herdsmen left at least 48 people dead. Scores of people were critically wounded, and sixty houses and two churches completely…

Syria: deadly airstrike on Aleppo hospital

29 Apr 2016
At least fourteen patients and three doctors were killed on Thursday in an airstrike on a hospital in Aleppo, the charity Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says. Among those killed in the al-Quds hospital was one of…