The number of refugees in the world has skyrocketed from 42 million to almost 66 million since 2009, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday.
"The diminishing ability of the global community to prevent, contain and resolve conflicts is the cause of the increase," Filippo Grandi told the UN Security Council in New York.
Pakistani Bride Kills 17 In-Laws In A Botched Plot To Poison Husband
A 21 year old wife who was forced into an arranged marriage has been arrested by Pakistani police for allegedly killing 17 of her in-laws in a bid to poison the man she had been forced to marry in Pakistan. The suspect Aasia Bibi, 21 had two months into the marriage fled to her parents’ house, but was forcibly taken back to her husband.
Suicide Bombers Attack Two Afghan Mosques
Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 72 people including children, officials and witnesses said, according to Reuters. One bomber walked into a Shi‘ite Muslim mosque in the capital Kabul as people were praying on Friday night and detonated an explosive, one of the worshippers there, Mahmood Shah Husaini, said.
Nuclear War May Be Imminent - North Korean UN Diplomat Warns
North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador, who warned that the situation on the Korean peninsula has now reached a stage where "nuclear war may break out at any moment." Kim In-ryong disclosed this while speaking to the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee, explained that no other country in the world has been subjected to such an "extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the United States since the 1970s.
Police In Japan Arrest Man Found In Possession Of 9 Dismembered Bodies
Japanese police have arrested a 27-year-old man after finding nine dismembered bodies in his apartment. The suspect, named Takahiro Shiraishi, confessed to cutting up the bodies in a bathroom in his room in the city of Zama, 40 km south-west of Tokyo.
North Korea Threatens ‘Unimaginable Strike’ On US Ship
North Korea’s official news agency described a US aircraft carrier patrolling off the Korean Peninsula as a “primary target” and said Washington should expect an “unimaginable” attack. The latest threat on Thursday came amid massive joint US-South Korean naval exercises off the peninsula involving the American aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
U.S.- Backed Rebels Take 'Full Control' Of Islamic State Capital, Raqqa
U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants on Tuesday, a senior commander said, in a major defeat for the collapsing extremist group that had proclaimed the city to be the capital of its “caliphate”. Although clashes in Raqqa have ended, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are in control, combing the city in northern Syria for land mines and searching for any Islamic State sleeper cells, SDF Brig. Gen. Talal Sillo told The Associated Press.