Nearly 250 refugees dead or missing after shipwrecks off Libyan coast
Authorities raise alarm at increased risks of Mediterranean voyages, as people smugglers crowd refugees on to vessels meant for far fewer people
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Eastern Aleppo becoming ‘one giant graveyard’ says UN humanitarian chief
- Stephen O’Brien says 25,000 forced to flee homes since Saturday
- Russia dismisses ‘pointless’ resolutions in security council emergency session
Bestselling Bangladeshi writer Raihan Abir can’t ‘fight machetes with a pen’
A killing spree targeting secularists forced Abir and his family to escape to Canada and has resulted in ‘losing the brightest minds of Bangladesh one by one’
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