Aleppo's angel: A nurse's devotion to Syria's children
(CNN) - Malaika, a 29-year-old head nurse, holds Ali, a 2-day-old infant, as he struggles to take his final breaths. Born in eastern Aleppo, one of the hardest-hit cities in Syria's five-year civil war, Ali was born with chest issues that forced him to rely on an oxygen pump and an incubator in the neonatal unit at Aleppo Children's Hospital.At 1:20 p.m.on July 23, a government airstrike scored a direct hit to the hospital. Dust and debris filled the room where 11 babies lay in incubators.Sever..>> view originalKashmir unrest: Sympathisers of radicals in Delhi are a bigger threat than Pakistan, Islamic State
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
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