Yemeni children fill water buckets at Markazi Refugee Camp in Obock, Djibouti, after they crossed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Guirreh Moumin)
Families of suspected illegal miners who died in Nigerian detention accuse officials of mistreatment
Lawan Mohammed is distraught over the death of his 25-year-old son Sulieman who was found dead in the custody of a Nigerian security agency. He said Sulieman was a mechanic in Niger state and was on his way home when he and some friends were arrested by personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps. Sulieman was found dead on Thursday in a cell along with 36 other detainees. A total of 67 people suspected of being illegal miners were held in a cell, and 37 of them probably died of suffocation. That's according to the state governor, Umar Bago. The security agency has blamed the deaths on a possible disease outbreak.
A displaced Palestinian woman and child walk at a destroyed U.N.-run school on the first day of the new academic year, in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Earns Top National and Global Pediatric Hospital Honors from U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Earns Top National and Global Pediatric Hospital Honors from U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek
While parents met with representatives from local agencies, children enjoyed a reading nook, games, crafts, puzzles and more. (Pictured: Fort Riley Opportunity Expo).
FILE - A child plays with his father's phone outside a school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
EU chief proposes a social media ban for kids under 13.
Mrs. Lila Skalla, center, sits with her son-in-law, Don Lansberry, and niece, Nancy Doctor, at an inquest in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 25, 1966, into the death of her son, George Skalla, and William Calvin Bailey. The two men were killed by Beverly Hills police at the front door of the home of industrialist Leonard K. Firestone, while attempting to kidnap him. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)
