
Yemen's Dying Boy's Plea
Yemen's dying boy; USA-Russia deal on Syria; Ukraine's Boombox band
A video of a dying Yemeni boy lying on a hospital bed being treated for injuries from flying shrapnel has gone viral on Facebook. His fate has gone viral on Facebook. The video shows 6-year-old Fareed Shawky pleading in a soft voice to doctors. ' Don't bury me '.
The US and Russia make a deal on minimising the risk of their aircraft coming into accidental contact in the skies above Syria.
Boombox: one of Ukraine's Russian-speaking top bands, are playing in London as they cannot perform to the audiences in Russia after the group's frontman Andriy Khlyvnyuk voiced his disagreement with Russia's annexation of Crimea.
( Photo: A Yemeni man stands near a building heavily damaged by fighting between government loyalists and rebels in Yemen's third city Taez. Credit: Ahmad Al- Basha /AFP/Getty Images)
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