Suicide attack kills more then 50 at volleyball tournament in east Afghanistan
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MidPoint | Paul E. Vallely discusses the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Retired Major General joins MidPoint to discuss the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and recent failed US rescue attempts of ISIS hostages.
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Syria topped Afghanistan as the country with the largest refugee population under United Nations care, as the countrys civil war raged for a fourth year.
By June 2014 more than 3 million Syrians, over 10 percent of the population, had fled their country. That accounted for 23 percent of all refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency, the organization said in a new report released today.
Afghanistan slipped to second with 2.7 million refugees, after topping the ranking for more than three decades, according to agencys Mid-Year Trends 2014 report, a preview of an annual report on global displacement trends. Somalia ranked third with 1.1 million refugees, followed by South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar and Iraq.
More people were displaced worldwide at the end of 2013 than during World War II, driven mainly by the worsening conflict in Syria, the agency said in its earlier report. There is no political settlement in sight as sectarian tensions intensify, rebel groups remain fractious and regional and global proxies continue their deadlock.
As long as the international community continues to fail to find political solutions to existing conflicts and to prevent new ones from starting, we will continue to have to deal with the dramatic humanitarian consequences, UN High Commissioner for RefugeesAntonio Guterres said in an e-mailed statement.
With 1.4 million people crossing borders as refugees and another 4.1 million displaced within their own countries in the first half of last year, the agency said it is now assisting a record 46.3 million people.
The report doesnt include about 5 million Palestinian refugees registered with the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is dedicated solely to their needs and is independent from the UN Refugee Agency.
To contact the reporter on this story: Sangwon Yoon in United Nations at syoon32@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: John Walcott at jwalcott9@bloomberg.net Andrew Davis, Douglas Wong
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At least nine people were killed across Afghanistan on Wednesday, including two children who were struck by a bomb blast while gathering firewood, officials said.
The fatal blast took place in the Zhari district of the southern Kandahar province. A separate bomb blast in the Shahwali Kot district of Kandahar wounded another 10 children, leaving seven in critical condition, said Samim Khopalwaq, the spokesman for Kandahar's governor.
"Our children were there to collect wood to burn when they were hit by this bomb," said Bismallah Jan, the father of one of the wounded children. "The government should have cleared the area, it their duty to protect us."
Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, and children are often killed or wounded while playing, collecting firewood or tending animals.
In the eastern Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, a bomb blast killed Judge Mohammad-ul Hassan and wounded two of his daughters in the provincial capital Jalalabad, police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal said. The judge served in neighboring Laghman province.
In another attack, insurgents killed six people working on a road project, including the head of a construction company, in northern Baghlan province, police spokesman Jawed Basharat said, adding that the attack wounded another person and left two missing.
In the eastern Khost province, three suicide bombers attacked a police academy, with one blowing himself up in a car and the other two shot by police, the provincial governor's office said. It said three police officers were wounded.
The Taliban claimed the attacks in Nangarhar and Khost.
In the southern Helmand province, police spokesman Fareed Ahmad Obaid said a rocket fired by the Taliban killed three members of the same family -- a man, woman and child -- when it hit a house in the Nawzad district late Tuesday.
Two other children, members of the same family, were wounded, he said.
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2014 became the deadliest year for journalists in Afghanistan
About 60 journalists were killed all over the world in 2014. 8 of them lost their lives here in Afghanistan. Zubair Hatami was one of them. He was a young video journalist working for a local...
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