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The UN humanitarian chief has said the situation in Syria is a stain on the international community as the UN lauched its biggest ever humanitarian appeal. Valerie Amos said more than 16 billion dollars was needed to fund UN humanitarian operations around the world next year with nearly half of it for Syria. Liz Decet reports.
This year's record appeal underlyings what's needed most of all to end major humanitarian crisis are political solutions, Most of the aid is for people struggling to survive in areas of conflicts. On the top of the list are Iraq, South Sudan, Central African repulic. But UN envoy Valerie Amos said the biggest test continues to be Syria with there is no ending in sight to a punishing war.
The US government says it's reinforced security for its staff and facilities around the world ahead of the release of a senate report which is expected to criticise the CIA's controversial interrogation methods. A White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the contents of the report due out on Tuesday could provoke an angry response.
There are actually many indications that this release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to US facilities and individuals all around the world. So, administratin has taken the prudent steps to insure that proper security precautions are in place at US facilities around the globe.
The report which has been heavily readapted as suspected detail of CIA's use of torture on suspected Al Qaida detainees as a part of a secret program launched by president Bush after the September 11 attacks of 2001.
The Uruguay defense minister says 6 men released from the Guantanamo Bay detation centre on Saturday will enjoy complete freedom and the normal life in South American nation. The minister Eleuterio Huidobro told Rouster news agency that Uruguay had accepted any conditions from the US when it agreed to recieve the former detainees.
The WHO says Sierra Leone has overtaken its west African neighbor Liberia as the country with the highest number of cases of Ebola. The UN agency said more than 6,300 people were now known to have died in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Our Africa editor Richard has more.
This latest data reflects the fact that the disease is now spreading faster in Sierra Leone while infection rates appear to be stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea. The total number of Ebola cases in the 3 west African countries is now around 17,800 of these nearly 6,800 cases were in Sierrra Leone slightly more than the neighboring Liberia. But medical experts warning that the total number of death in Sierra Leone could be far higher than the official figures as the country has an estimated fatality rate of 70%.
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Greece's consevative-led government has announced that a vote in parliament to elect the country's president will be brought forward by more than 2 months for the 17th of December. The announcement came after EU's ministers agreed a 2-month's extension to Greece's bailout programe that was to end this month. The vote will be a key test for the government of the prime minister Antonis Samaras which has a narrow majority in parliament.
The Egyptian authorities say after a raid in Cairo, at least 26 men are facing allegations of what was described as debauchery. Homosexuality is not official banned in Egypt, but gay men are often accused of other cimes. Here's our Arab affairs editor Allen Johnston.
This raid was carried out at night, and it targeted at a bathhouse in Cairo. The men were arrested, and then hurleded out, naked, into a city centre street. This seems to be the largest raid of it kinds for a number of years. But gay men in Egypt are always at risk of being punished under the country's immorality laws. Just last month several were given three year jail sentences after they appeared in a video of an alleged gay marriage which then went viral on the internet.
Memebers of the US-led coalition fighting the IS group are ready to deploy more forces to Iraq. The alliances commander US general James has said that around 1,500 security personel will be sent to advise and train local soldiers who are confronting the militants. These advisers will be an addition to the more than 3,000 US troops whose deployment to Iraq has already been authorized, it's nor yet clear which of the coalition nations will provide the extra personnel.
A group of female students of the Red Mosque in Pakistani capital Islamabad have appeared in a video pledging their allegiance to IS and called on Pakistanis to join it. Their principal told the BBC she was aware of the video and approved of it.