Detained Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo leave Insein court after listening to the verdict sentencing them to seven years in prison, in Yangon, Myanmar.

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Weeks after the August 9 bombing of a school bus in the Yemeni province of Saada, the boys’ father is still in shock after having to bury his three young children read more

Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in the war in Yemen have caused heavy civilian casualties and some may amount to war crimes, U.N. human rights experts said read more

At least 22 children and four women died in an attack on Thursday while fleeing fighting in the Al-Durayhimi district, south of the rebel-held city of Hodeida in Yemen read more

Fifty-six children were also among the 79 people wounded in the August 9 strike on Saada province, a rebel stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. read more

Iraqi security officials said one of the two airstrikes by F-16s targeted a meeting of would-be suicide bombers who intended to strike in Iraq during next week’s Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. read more

The Taliban began the attack late Thursday from several positions around the city, provincial police chief Farid Ahmad Mashal said. read more

The Saudi airstrikes, which hit sites in the al-Barid neighborhood in the city of Amran, also wounded over 20 people, the officials in Yemen said. read more

Awsaf, a 5-year-old Yemeni girl sits, next to her mother near her hut, drinking tea which on many days is the only food the family manages. Save the Children estimates that 50,000 children may have died in 2017 of extreme hunger or disease in Yemen. Deprived of food, the only defense against their hunger are mothers who skip meals and sleep to escape the gnawing in their stomachs at bay.

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Darth Vader and Chewbacca take a boat trip to the Skelligs where the first ever Star Wars festival is taking place in Portmagee, Ireland. Skellig Michael island was used extensively in Episode VII and Episode VIII of the popular science fiction saga.

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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear if the airstrikes in the Hassakeh province were carried out by the US-led coalition or the Iraqi air force. read more

The attack hit a car transporting 20 passengers south of Taiz province, locals told Reuters. Six bodies had been identified but the rest were charred beyond recognition read more

French foreign ministry has accused Russia and Syria of denying access to experts dispatched to investigate the alleged chemical attack in Douma on April 7. read more

British Prime Minister Theresa May told restive lawmakers on Monday that military airstrikes against Syria were right both legally and morally, and accused Syria and its ally Russia of attempting to cover-up evidence of a deadly chemical weapons attack. May faced down her domestic critics as European Union foreign ministers united to say they understood the need for the airstrikes and called for a new push for a political solution to the war in Syria. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the Prime Minister she was accountable to Parliament and that the military action was “legally questionable”. (HT)read more

Yemeni music students play violins during a music class at the Cultural Centre in Sanaa, Yemen. For the young people who receive lessons from Abdullah El-Deb’y, music is a safe haven from the misery of Yemen’s devastating war.

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