Today's World News
To Start off Afghanistan
UN Report: 2015 a Record Bad Year for Civilians in Afghanistan.
Civilian casualties from the war in Afghanistan reached record levels for the seventh year in a row in 2015, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nation.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) blamed mounting ground fighting between Western-backed government forces and insurgent groups for at least 3,545 civilian deaths, with a further 7,457 Afghans wounded in 2015, a 4 percent increase in casualties from the year before.
Ground fighting was listed as the leading cause of civilian casualties at 37 percent, followed by roadside bombs at 21 percent and suicide attacks at 17 percent.
The United States' bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, which killed 42 staff, patients, family members and injured another 43, was the main reason civilian casualties caused by international military forces increased by 9 percent in 2015.
Haiti Finally Gets an Interim President.
The Haitian Parliament elected in the early hours Sunday morning Jocelerme Privert as the country's new interim president after two intense days of voting in the House and the Senate.
Privert, current president of the National Assembly, received 64 of the 92 votes in the upper House, and 13 of the 22 votes in the Senate.
Former Senator Edgard Leblanc Fils from the opposition Struggling People's Organization was elected in the House, while Privert was elected by the Senate.
US urges Turkey to halt Kurdish militia shelling in Syria.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have warned that they will send ground forces into Syria if an agreement isn't reached for a pause in the fighting.
Turkey shells Syrian Kurds, Russia says will keep bombing anti-Assad rebels.
BEIRUT/MUNICH (Reuters) - The Turkish army shelled Kurdish militia in northern Syria for a second day on Sunday, while Russia made clear it would continue bombing Syrian rebel targets, raising doubts that a planned ceasefire would bring much relief.
The Kurdish YPG militia, helped by Russian air raids, seized an ex-military air base at Menagh last week, angering Turkey, which sees the YPG as an extension of the PKK, a Kurdish group that waged a bloody insurgent campaign on Turkish soil over most of the past three decades.
The Syrian Kurdish PYD party rejected Turkish demands for withdrawal, while the Syrian government said Turkish shelling of northern Syria amounted to direct support for insurgent groups.
Kurdish-backed forces were fighting with insurgent groups near Tel Rifaat in the northern Aleppo countryside, while further south, government forces renewed their shelling of rebel positions to the northwest of Aleppo city.
But the Kremlin statement made clear Russia would continue bombing raids against Islamic State and "other terroristic organizations", an indication that it would also be targeting groups in western Syria where jihadists such as al Qaeda are fighting President Bashar al-Assad in close proximity to rebels deemed moderate by the West.
Israeli soldiers kill 3 Palestinians in separate incidents.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
To Start off Afghanistan
UN Report: 2015 a Record Bad Year for Civilians in Afghanistan.
Civilian casualties from the war in Afghanistan reached record levels for the seventh year in a row in 2015, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nation.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) blamed mounting ground fighting between Western-backed government forces and insurgent groups for at least 3,545 civilian deaths, with a further 7,457 Afghans wounded in 2015, a 4 percent increase in casualties from the year before.
Ground fighting was listed as the leading cause of civilian casualties at 37 percent, followed by roadside bombs at 21 percent and suicide attacks at 17 percent.
The United States' bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, which killed 42 staff, patients, family members and injured another 43, was the main reason civilian casualties caused by international military forces increased by 9 percent in 2015.
Haiti Finally Gets an Interim President.
The Haitian Parliament elected in the early hours Sunday morning Jocelerme Privert as the country's new interim president after two intense days of voting in the House and the Senate.
Privert, current president of the National Assembly, received 64 of the 92 votes in the upper House, and 13 of the 22 votes in the Senate.
Former Senator Edgard Leblanc Fils from the opposition Struggling People's Organization was elected in the House, while Privert was elected by the Senate.
US urges Turkey to halt Kurdish militia shelling in Syria.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have warned that they will send ground forces into Syria if an agreement isn't reached for a pause in the fighting.
Turkey shells Syrian Kurds, Russia says will keep bombing anti-Assad rebels.
BEIRUT/MUNICH (Reuters) - The Turkish army shelled Kurdish militia in northern Syria for a second day on Sunday, while Russia made clear it would continue bombing Syrian rebel targets, raising doubts that a planned ceasefire would bring much relief.
The Kurdish YPG militia, helped by Russian air raids, seized an ex-military air base at Menagh last week, angering Turkey, which sees the YPG as an extension of the PKK, a Kurdish group that waged a bloody insurgent campaign on Turkish soil over most of the past three decades.
The Syrian Kurdish PYD party rejected Turkish demands for withdrawal, while the Syrian government said Turkish shelling of northern Syria amounted to direct support for insurgent groups.
Kurdish-backed forces were fighting with insurgent groups near Tel Rifaat in the northern Aleppo countryside, while further south, government forces renewed their shelling of rebel positions to the northwest of Aleppo city.
But the Kremlin statement made clear Russia would continue bombing raids against Islamic State and "other terroristic organizations", an indication that it would also be targeting groups in western Syria where jihadists such as al Qaeda are fighting President Bashar al-Assad in close proximity to rebels deemed moderate by the West.
Israeli soldiers kill 3 Palestinians in separate incidents.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
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