Eurostar staff announce August strikes and other top stories.

• Eurostar staff announce August strikes

  

  Image copyright PA Eurostar rail workers from two unions are to take part in two concurrent periods of strike action this month in a dispute over their work-life balance.RMT members will walk out from 12 to 15 and 27 to 29 August while TSSA members will strike on 14 and 15 and 28 and 29.Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said he was "very disappointed the unions keep calling strike action over what appear to be pretty minor matters".Eurostar said all passengers with reservations will be abl..

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• South Sudan Rejects Increased UN Peacekeeping Force

  

  JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan has rejected an American proposal at the U.N. Security Council to send 4,000 additional troops to South Sudan.Government spokesperson Michael Makuei said Wednesday that the proposal "seriously undermines the sovereignty of the Republic of South Sudan as a U.N. member state."Fighting in the capital, Juba, last month raised fears of a renewed civil war. Both the African Union and IGAD, an East African political body, have proposed sending additional peacekeepers i..

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• Saudi Arabia Intercepts Ballistic Missiles Fired From Yemen

  

  Saudi Arabia says its air force has intercepted two ballistic missiles fired from Yemen into the kingdom. A Saudi military statement says the missiles were fired on Wednesday morning toward the cities of Abha and Khamis Mushait, both of which are close to the kingdom's southern border with Yemen. It says the missiles caused no damage. Yemen's Shiite rebels known as Houthis are known to have a supply of Soviet-era Scud missiles, seized from the country's military stockpiles. A Saudi-led coa..

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• As temperatures soar and taps run dry in war-ravaged Aleppo, UN warns of looming 'catastrophe'

  

  As the United Nations relief wing warned today that soaring temperatures and dwindling medical supplies are deepening the woes of some two million people trapped by fighting in and around Aleppo, the world body kept up its call for an immediate halt to the hostilities and, at a minimum, a two-day weekly humanitarian pause so the city’s heavily damaged water and electrical systems can be repaired.

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• Passenger Reports Hearing Gunshots Hitting an Olympic Media Bus in Rio

  

  By Naja Rayne @najarayne 08/10/2016 AT 12:35 AM EDT A media bus at the Olympics in Rio was vandalized on Tuesday night, possibly by gunfire, witnesses claim. USA Today reports that a passenger heard gunshots striking one of the buses used to transport media to and from Olympic events. The bus was reportedly returning from the women's basketball venue in Deodoro, when passengers said that they heard what sounded like gunshots, as two windows of the bus shattered. Authorities, however, ..

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• Baghdad hospital fire: 11 babies die in maternity ward blaze

  

  Story highlightsThe babies were in the pre-term birth unit Twenty-nine women delivered babies at the hospital Tuesday nightThe babies were in the pre-term birth unit in Yarmouk Hospital and died of suffocation, said Ahmed al-Rdainy, a spokesman for the ministry. A preliminary report provided by the Civil Defense indicates the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit.Amateur footage from the scene, circulated on social media, showed nervous families congregating outside the maternity ward. ..

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• Turkish, Russian officials to discuss solution for Syria

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Konstantin palace outside St.Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. President Erdogan travels to Russia to meet with President Putin for the first time since apologizing in late June for the downing of a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border in November last year. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press) By Suzan Fraser | AP August 10 at 6:10 AM ANKARA, Turkey — A delegation of ..

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• Brazil Senate Indicts Dilma Rousseff, Opens Impeachment Trial

  

  BRASILIA — Brazil's Senate voted early Wednesday to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment process that has stalled Brazilian politics since January. With the eyes of the world on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, senators in the capital Brasilia voted 59-21 against the suspended leftist leader in a raucous, 20-hour session presided over by Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff EVARI..

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• Why Zambia's Democracy Hangs in the Balance

  

  This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When Rupiah Banda conceded defeat to Michael Sata in Zambia’s 2011 elections, many commentators hailed the peaceful transfer of power as a sign that the country’s democracy had matured. Twenty years after ousting the United National Independence Party (UNIP) in the historic 1991 multi-party elections, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) lost to Sata’s urban-based and populist Patriotic Front (PF). Try..

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