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Brexit: UK may need extra time, says foreign secretary

More time may be needed for Brexit legislation, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Thursday, signaling a possible extension of process on Article 50, the section of the EU treaty governing Brexit. "It is true that if we ended up approving the deal in the days before the 29 March...

Cold kills 29 children fleeing Syria fighting: WHO

At least 29 Syrian children have died in the cold weather in the past eight weeks as they tried to flee the violence in eastern Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. The children and newborns mostly died of hypothermia while traveling to the Al-Hol refugee camp in...

In former IS bastion, displaced Syrians clamour to go home

In the former jihadist bastion of Hajin in eastern Syria, 50-year-old Khaled Abed shouts at the top of his lungs amid the rubble, asking why he can't go home. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expelled the Islamic State group from the town last month, but it has since forbidden...

Lawmakers launch new push to end US-supported Yemen war

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation Wednesday that could halt U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The war powers resolution already passed the Senate in December but failed to gain traction in the then-Republican-controlled House,...