A house fire during a party in central Madagascar on Saturday night killed 38 people including 16 children as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof, police said Monday. The victims — the youngest only six months old — were trapped inside the house in Ambalavato village of Ikalamavony district ...
The UN said that civilians casualties in Afghanistan touched a record high in the first half of 2016, with children in particular paying a heavy price as insurgent groups step up fighting. Between January and June, 1,601 civilians were killed and 3,565 were wounded — a four percent increase in ...