Sweden may expel up to 80,000 migrants
Sweden is making plans to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum-seekers over coming years, the interior minister is quoted as saying. BBC News – Europe
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Zika ‘could become explosive pandemic’
Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
Malala warns of Syria’s education gap
Campaigner Malala Yousufzai calls for more to be done to educate millions of Syrian refugee children denied access to school. BBC News – Middle East
UK to give sanctuary to child refugees
The UK is to accept more unaccompanied child refugees from Syria and other conflict zones – but the government has not said how many. BBC News – UK
Leader urges end to armed US stand-off
Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed protest at a wildlife refuge in Oregon who was arrested on Tuesday, urges the remaining occupiers to go home. BBC News – US & Canada
Ivory Coast ex-leader’s trial to begin
Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo is due to go on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity, the former first head of state to appear at the ICC. BBC News – Africa