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Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitor
Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitor
by  AFP

A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region on Friday, a war monitor said. Syria's war has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes. aya/it

Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
by  AFP

At a sprawling landfill near Madrid, hundreds of white storks dodge garbage trucks as they look for scraps of food among the mountains of multicoloured garbage bags. - Garbage 'buffet' - Soriano estimates that "about 70 percent of storks no longer migrate" to Africa, mainly because of the easily available food they can find in Spain in landfills.

Millions hungry but drought overlooked as Kenya prepares to vote
Millions hungry but drought overlooked as Kenya prepares to vote
by  AFP

In the dust bowl of Kenya's drought-stricken north, the people of Purapul are edging closer to starvation, surviving on nothing but wild berries as their children waste away from hunger. At least 18 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing severe hunger as the worst drought in 40 years devastates the region.

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