Aid convoys still stuck as fighting shakes Syria truce
Syrian forces and rebels accuse each other of breaking fragile ceasefire, as aid lorries are held up for another day.
Convoys carrying humanitarian aid to Syria's besieged city of Aleppo have been held up for yet another day, as fighting between Syrian forces and rebel fighters outside Damascus raised concerns about the longevity of a fragile ceasefire.
The clashes on Friday were described as some of the most serious since the truce deal came into effect on Monday, with both the government and rebels accusing each other of breaching the US-Russia brokered ceasefire.
In a further sign of rising tensions, Washington told Moscow on Friday that potential military cooperation in Syria will not happen unless it pressured the Syrian government to allow the delivery of aid into besieged areas.Syrian war: British volunteers in socialist 'Bob Crow Brigade' prepared to die fighting Isis
Exclusive: Members of Kurdish-allied force speak to The Independent as they prepare for new advance
A group of British, Irish and Canadian volunteers fighting in Syriasay they are prepared to die in defence of their “revolution” as they prepare to face both Isis and Turkish-backed rebels.
In an exclusive interview with The Independent, members of the socialist Bob Crow Brigade (BCB) said their 40-strong group would battle to “defend the first revolution of the 21st Century” against all enemies.
They came to prominence after posting a photo online showing themselves posing by a wall with a message to Labour leadership contender Owen Smith.
'Islamic State' sex slavery survivor named United Nations goodwill ambassador
A Yazidi woman who was raped, tortured and sold into sexual slavery by the "Islamic State" in Iraq has been appointed UN goodwill ambassador. Nadia Murad Basee Taha will raise awareness of human trafficking.
At a ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday, Nadia Murad Basee Taha became the first trafficking victim to take up the position of UN goodwill ambassador.
Murad was taken from her home village of Kocho near Iraq's northern town of Sinjar in August 2014 and brought to "Islamic State" (IS)-controlled Mosul, where she was gang-raped, and bought and sold many times, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls and women. Many have since died, or still remain in captivity.
After three months of captivity, Murad was able to escape and has since been resettled in Germany.
Venetians protest: 'Venice is not an amusement park!'
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Venetians are protesting over issues stemming from mass tourism in the city. They feel that Venice has come to cater more to visitors than to its own inhabitants, and they fear the city could become little more than an "amusement park," emptied of its populace.
This past weekend, several hundred people descended on the centre of Venice, a city listed as a Unesco world heritage site.
An informal group created in June, "Generazione 90", which organised the protest, is made up of about 30 young people who are "worried about the future of [their] city", according to their Facebook page, which also notes: "We are perhaps the last generation to know the real city of Venice, when living, finding a home and a job, walking the streets and buying groceries weren't the stuff of superheroes but normal things."
In America's drug death capital: How heroin is scarring the next generation
Story by Wayne Drash and Max Blau, CNN
Photographs by Maddie McGarvey for CNN
Sara Murray tends to two dozen babies in the neonatal therapeutic unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital. They shake. They vomit. Their inconsolable, high-pitched screams pierce the air. The symptoms can last for hours, days or months.
Graceful and soft-spoken, Murray is a seasoned nurse tirelessly defending the innocent. But even she gets worn down. On difficult days, she seeks a moment of refuge behind her desk and wonders: How did we get here?
These babies -- her babies -- are the youngest, most vulnerable victims of a raging epidemic.
Japan court rejects Okinawa move to block US base relocation
MARI YAMAGUCHI,Associated Press
A Japanese court ruled Friday that Okinawa's governor exceeded his legal authority by revoking a permit to reclaim land for the relocation of a U.S. military base, allowing the central government to proceed with the plan despite protests by local residents.
The decision is part of an ongoing legal battle between the southern island of Okinawa and Japan's government over plans to move the base to a less-populated part of the island, which have stalled for 20 years.
Okinawa said it will appeal the ruling by the Fukuoka High Court to the Supreme Court.
Gov. Takeshi Onaga, who wants the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma moved off the island, revoked the reclamation permit last October.
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