Conjoined twins born in Syria war zone
12 August 2016
A mother has given birth to conjoined twins in a part of Syria that has seen some of the war's heaviest fighting.
Nawras and Moaz, who are joined at the chest with protruding intestines, were born in the city of Douma in July.
They have now been safely transferred by ambulance to a children's hospital in nearby Damascus.
Syrian doctors had appealed for help from the World Health Organization, saying the twins would die if they were unable to undergo surgery.
Thai police arrest two men over coordinated bomb attacks
Government says perpetrators attempted ‘to create chaos and confusion’ but that terrorism was not behind the fatal explosions
Police in Thailand have arrested two men over multiple blasts that targeted a central bar district and clock tower in the seaside resort of Hua Hin.
At least four people were killed when a succession of bombs hit five separate provinces on Thursday and Friday in coordinated strikes that authorities said were set up to cause chaos across the nation. Improvised explosive devices and fire bombs were used, police said.
Thirty-four people were wounded, including 10 European tourists, mostly in Hua Hin. They included three Germans, three Italians, an Austrian and three Dutch citizens.
Flint water crisis: federal state of emergency expires, but the public health disaster is far from over
One of the country's leading lead exposure experts says the troubled Michigan city's water supply is 'dramatically better' than this time last year
On January 16, President Barack Obama declared a federal state of emergency in the Michigan city of Flint, to deal with a water crisis which saw tens of thousands of people potentially exposed to dangerous levels of lead in their public water supply.
Over the seven months since, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has reportedly provided more than 20 million litres of bottled water and some 50,000 water filters to residents of the troubled city, for which the federal government split the costs 75-25 with the state.
The federal emergency declaration was originally set to expire in April, until Michigan’s Republican Governor Rick Snyder begged for an extension. This Sunday, 14 August, it will finally lapse for good.
A traveling theatre to counter prejudice against Syrian refugees
This traveling theatre has a unique goal: offering an antidote to the discrimination that many Syrian refugees have felt in Lebanon. The project, which is called “The Caravan”, was launched last January by a Lebanese NGO. Since then, the theatre on wheels has been on the road in Lebanon, and has even made its way to other countries, notably Tunisia.
Since the beginning of the Syrian war, in 2011, millions of Syrians have fled their country for neighbouring Lebanon. The influx has caused some tensions. Several organisations have denounced the racist attitudes of some Lebanese toward the refugees. Lebanese authorities have not given them the right to work, and many refugees live in difficult conditions, crammed into makeshift camps.
Thousands of Syrian refugees are today squeezed into camps in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley. Here, the Syrians are often accused of competing with Lebanese for work.
Why Uganda’s teenage girls could hold key to its prosperity
PATH TO PROGRESS
To achieve middle-income status, Uganda must cut its birth rate sharply and quickly, experts say, as well as foster educational opportunities for adolescent girls.
GOMBA, UGANDA — Farming is not the future that Prossy Nakalema envisioned for herself when she graduated from high school earlier this year – an accomplishment that remains more extraordinary than mundane for girls in this East African country.
A stylish 18-year-old whose woven braids match her pink-and-black outfit, Ms. Nakalema dreams of going to college, getting a good job, and putting off what most of the young women around her accept as the normal future: a string of babies to tend to by one’s mid-twenties.
But her family has no extra income to send her on to college, and her months-long job hunt has come up dry, so Prossy is stuck on her family’s small plot not far from the shores of Lake Victoria. With every day, she feels her hopes of overcoming a future of young motherhood and subsistence farming receding.
Donald Trump Makes It Very Hard to Figure Out What He Really Thinks
Moments after Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Friday that he was “obviously being sarcastic” when he repeatedly called President Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS,” he seemed to backtrack on backtracking, by adding, “but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”
Video of the comments from NBC News showed that Trump then accused the media of intentionally distorting his words, pointing at the assembled press corps and telling the crowd, “these people are the lowest form of life.”
As his supporters cheered, the candidate then executed another half pivot. “They are the lowest form of humanity!” Trump bellowed. “Not all of them, they have about 25 percent that are pretty good actually, but most of them.”
Rio 2016: Saudi runner aims to break barriers
Marathoner Sarah Attar has inspired other women in Saudi Arabia to take up running as a serious sport.
Motez Bishara
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Many things have changed for Sarah Attar since London 2012.
For starters, the 23-year-old pioneering Saudi Arabian runner with an infectious smile graduated from Pepperdine University, in California, and began training full-time as a long-distance runner.
Attar is now in Rio de Janeiro for her second Olympic experience, leading a team of four Saudi women who were given wildcard entries.
In London, Attar and judoka Wojdan Shaherkani were the first two Saudi women to participate in an Olympics - so simply appearing at the starting blocks of her 800-metre heat was enough to garner global attention.
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