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  GENEVA / AP UNICEF is appealing for $3.3 billion this year to help millions of children worldwide facing conflict, malnutrition and other humanitarian emergencies. The UN children’s agency says more than 40 percent of the appeal would provide funds for children either displaced within Syria or who have fled abroad to escape the country’s nearly six-year war. UNICEF said ...

  BEIRUT / AP The World Food Program says it has resumed food airdrops to the besieged Syrian city of Deir al-Zour. The U.N. agency said on Tuesday it was using a new drop zone after IS group militants took control of the primary zone two weeks ago. The extremist group laid siege Deir al-Zour in 2015, trapping Syrian government ...

  AVDIIVKA / AP Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least seven people overnight, injuring many more and briefly trapping 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported. Rebels in Donetsk said an electricity sub-station was damaged in shelling, cutting power to the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk and trapping more ...

  MANILA / AP The United States is not building any weapons depot anywhere in the Philippines, the US ambassador said Tuesday, denying the basis on which President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to abrogate a 2014 defense pact that allows US forces to temporarily base in local camps. Ambassador Sung Kim said that nothing is being planned now that even closely ...

  Bloomberg Brexit Secretary David Davis called on lawmakers to give the government permission to implement the will of the British people who voted for the UK’s formal departure from the European Union. Davis kicked off the debate in the House of Commons in London on Tuesday and made the case that the issue is straightforward. The lower house of ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Donald Trump is vigorously defending his immigration restrictions, as protests spread throughout the country, saying “this is about terror and keeping our country safe.” Trump released a statement asserting, “To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting.” The president addressed the issue late Sunday in a statement as some ...

  QUEBEC CITY / AP A shooting at a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers left six people dead in an attack that Canada’s prime minister called an act of terrorism. Police arrested two suspects, including one who called 911 to say he was armed but ready to give himself up. More than 50 people were at the Quebec Islamic ...

  ADDIS ABABA / AP The UN Secretary General has commended African countries for opening their borders to refugees and people fleeing violence while other parts of the world, including the developed West, close boundaries and build walls. Antonio Guterres made the remarks Monday in Addis Ababa where several dozen African leaders are attending the summit of the African Union. ...

  Bloomberg Two days after moving to block the entry of citizens of seven majority Muslim countries, President Donald Trump’s talks with two Gulf Arab leaders contained no public mention of the ban. The focus, instead, was on anti-terrorism efforts and confronting a mutual foe: Iran. Trump spoke by phone on Sunday with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, whose country is ...

  YANGON / AP Myanmar politicians, activists and others shocked by the assassination of a longtime adviser to leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered on Monday at a cemetery for an emotional funeral ceremony, while police investigated the motive for the killing. Ko Ni, a prominent lawyer and member of Myanmar’s Muslim minority, was shot in the head at close ...