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Somalia's famine: how long-running problems make food scarce
A famine has been declared in Somalia due to recent droughts and a long-running civil war
Pakistan, social media and blasphemy
Pakistani government threaten to block all social media over blasphemous content
'With guns put to their heads, they barely ate for five days'
The desperate and dangerous journey of Syrian refugees.
'As we won an Oscar, the team were rescuing a child under the rubble'
The White Helmets, a film about the volunteer rescue group in Syria has won an Oscar.
On the front line in Mosul, "Civilians are emerging waving white flags"
Rukmini Callimachi of the New York Times describes what she has witnessed in Mosul.
Why are New York's bodegas closing their doors for a day?
The local grocery stores are largely owned by people from immigrant communities