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BBC
Yemen's rebel funeral hall attack 'kills scores'
More than 140 people have been killed and over 500 injured in air strikes on a funeral gathering in Yemen's capital Sanaa, a senior UN official says.
Jamie McGoldrick, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Yemen, condemned "the horrific attack".
The rebel Houthi-run government said a Saudi-led coalition was responsible - a claim Saudi Arabia denied.
The US said it had launched an "immediate review" of its already reduced support for the coalition.
"US security co-operation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check," White House National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said.
He said Washington was "prepared to adjust our support so as to better align with US principles, values and interests, including achieving an immediate and durable end to Yemen's tragic conflict".
CNN
US: No 'blank check' for Saudi Arabia in Yemen (autoplay)
"US security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check," US National Security Council Spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
"Even as we assist Saudi Arabia regarding the defense of their territorial integrity, we have and will continue to express our serious concerns about the conflict in Yemen and how it has been waged."
US 'not afraid' to raise Yemen concerns with Saudis 02:00
BBC
IS 'loses more than a quarter of its territory' in Syria and Iraq
So-called Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of the territory it once controlled, new data shows.
Security and defence analysts IHS say the group's control has shrunk by 28% since its height in January 2015.
In the first nine months of this year, IS' territory fell from 78,000 sq km (30,115 sq miles) to 65,500 sq km - an area equivalent to the size of Sri Lanka - IHS analysts said.
However, IS losses have slowed in the three months to October.IS has lost just 2,800 sq km (1,080 sq miles) since July.
The slowdown appears to coincide with Russia reducing the number of air strikes against IS targets, IHS has observed.
Al Jazeera
Global warming imperils Tajikistan's landscape
Gorno-Badakshan, Tajikistan - The caves perched above Savnob village in Tajikistan served as a hideout during frequent raids by nomadic bandits on the ancient agricultural community living there two centuries ago.
There is no threat of a bandit attack today, but villages in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains are now facing a new kind of threat: global warming.
Tajikistan is one of the countries least responsible for climate change but one of the worst affected, according to a new report by Oxfam.
It is ranked 129th in the world for greenhouse gas emissions per capita.
Today, age-old practices in Tajikistan are changing as shifting weather patterns make it harder for the villagers to plan tasks like when to sow their seeds.
They say warmer temperatures have also increased outbreaks of fungal diseases in their crops.
But melting glaciers concern people of the village the most.
The Lab Nazar glacier looms above Savnob village. Waters from mountain glaciers like Lab Nazar once allowed people to settle down to agricultural lifestyles in these high valleys.
But as temperatures get hotter due to climate change, the glacier melts faster, causing villagers to worry about their future.
Al Jazeera
Is the United Nations all talk and no action?
Russia has vetoed a UN resolution to end the bombing of Aleppo.
Another resolution also failed.
The UN is warning if air strikes continue on rebel-held areas, Syria's second largest city will be destroyed by the end of the year.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon says Aleppo is "worse than a slaughterhouse".
The UN says two million Syrians could be trapped in the city.
More than 400 civilians, about one-third of them children, have been killed during the last two weeks of bombardment.
Only five hospitals remain operational in the besieged part of eastern Aleppo.
Who's really calling the shots in this complex conflict?
Raw Story
Dozens of migrants saved off western Greece: coast guard
Dozens of migrants were rescued Saturday off western Greece after their vessel sent a distress call, the coast guard said.
The 131 migrants, whose nationalities have not been revealed, said to have been trying to reach Italy, according to initial reports.
Around five of them had managed to reach the shore by themselves, according to the Athens News Agency.
The migrants sent a distress call to the European emergency telephone number 112 from the 18-meter (60-foot) vessel after bad weather conditions overnight.
The boat docked at the western Greek port of Methoni in the Peloponnese peninsula with the help of the harbor police and all those aboard were safe
Smugglers are trying to explore new migrant routes afters the closure of the so-called Balkan route by the eastern European governments.
Since then the flow of migrants has shifted back towards people crossing to Italy from North Africa, with 140,000 making this trip since the start of this year.
Raw Story
North Carolina floodwaters, death toll rise as Matthew heads to sea
Raging North Carolina rivers still rising after Hurricane Matthew threaten up to a week more of death and destruction, the state’s governor said on Sunday as the storm’s remnant headed out to sea, leaving a path of carnage from the Caribbean up the U.S. Southeast coast.
Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Sunday after its rampage through the Caribbean killed nearly 900 people in Haiti. In the United States, the death toll rose to 17 people, and more than 2 million U.S. homes and business lost power.
With five people reported missing and rivers rising, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory said he expected more deaths. Eight people in the state have died so far, he said, raising the count by one, and several rivers are swelling to records and will not crest for days.
Many coastal and inland communities were still under water, either from coastal storm surge or overrun rivers and creeks, and dangerous conditions existed from downed power lines and damaged homes.
The Guardian
Russia downplays moving nuclear-capable missiles to Kaliningrad
Russia has played down the significance of the deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to the Russian outpost of Kaliningrad after the move led to protests from Estonia, Poland and Lithuania, underlining tensions about Russian intentions.
The deployment of the missiles was part of regular drills and was not a secret, the Russian defence ministry insisted.
“First of all, the authors behind the fuss should know that the Iskander missile system is a mobile one,” said a ministry spokesman, Gen Igor Konashenkov.
“As part of the combat training plan, units of the missile forces throughout the year improve their marching capabilities by covering great distances across the territory of the Russian Federation in various ways: by air, sea and on their own.”
Buzzfeed News
Samsung Has Suspended Production Of The Explosive Galaxy Note 7
Samsung, working with consumer safety agencies in South Korea, the US, and China, has temporarily halted production of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after reports that replacement devices have caught fire, Yonhap News reported.
US phone carriers AT&T and T-Mobile have stopped selling the phone and are not issuing replacement Note 7s for previously sold phones, the Wall Street Journalreported. Both carriers are instead offering refunds or different devices in exchange for returned Note 7s.
Last month, Samsung issued a global recall of 2.5 million Note 7s, including 1 million in the US, after a number of reports that the phones’ batteries were overheating and causing them to explode. The electronics manufacturer offered replacement phones to buyers with defective ones, but some users reported that even these burst into flames as well.
The Note 7 hit the market on Aug. 19, but faced a recall in the US less than a month later on Sept. 15 after nearly 100 reports of the devices catching fire or exploding, some with dramatic results. Replacement phones arrived in the US on Sept. 21 but were met with resistance after a Southwest Airlines flight was grounded because of a smoking Note 7.