UN: 1L kids in Tigray face deadly hunger

Nairobi: More than 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region could face the most extreme and life-threatening form of malnutrition in the next year, the United Nations children’s agency warned on Friday, as humanitarian aid remains blocked from the region of some 6 million people.

Death toll in Turkey wildfires rises to 4

Ankara: The death toll in a string of wildfires raging in southern Turkey rose to four, officials said Friday, as fire crews continued to battle blazes that burned down homes and forced people to evacuate settlements and beach resorts.

UK man sentenced to 5 yrs for killing cats

London: A former security guard who knifed nine cats to death in night-time attacks in the English seaside city of Brighton was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison. Steve Bouquet, 54, was convicted of attacking 16 cats, nine of them fatally, between late 2018 and mid-2019 in Brighton, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of London.

Israel delivers booster shots of vax to over 60

Jerusalem: Israeli health authorities began administering coronavirus booster shots on Friday to people over 60 who’ve already received both does of a vaccine, in a bid to combat a recent spike in cases.

Greece: Dinghy with migrants sinks

Athens: A search and rescue operation is underway on Friday near Greece’s island of Lesbos along the maritime border with Turkey, after an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants apparently sank, authorities said. Ten people had been rescued and another three were believed to be missing, Greece’s coast guard said. Survivors told authorities there had been a total of 13 people on the dinghy.