UK teachers see thin line between spy and protector

Educators in UK say anti-terrorism laws push them to spy on students under the guise of promoting 'British values'.

London, UK - Teachers have claimed that they are being pressured to spy on their own students because of new counterterrorism laws which they say risk scapegoating Muslim school children and stifling discussion of controversial issues in the classroom.

Delegates attending this week's conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the UK's largest union of school staff, voted in favour of a motion criticising the government's anti-radicalisation

China cancels multiple visit passes to Hong Kong

Move is aimed to cool tensions over growing influx of mainland shoppers, which has angered Hong Kong residents.

China has made curbs on travel to Hong Kong to cool tensions over the growing influx of mainland shoppers, which has angered residents of the Asian financial hub. 

The public security bureau in neighbouring Shenzhen will stop issuing multiple visit passes to people who live in the border city and instead issue only once-a-week travel passes, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Somali refugees urge Kenya not to close Dadaab camp

Elders want government to reconsider decision to relocate world's largest refugee camp, housing 500,000 people.

Somalis living in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp are asking the government to reconsider its decision to close it.

The Kenyan government has given the UN three months to move the camp into Somalia.

The move comes only days after fighters of al-Shabab, the Somali-based armed group, killed 148 people at Garissa University in Kenya.

Dadaab refugee camp is the world's largest, sheltering around 500,000 Somali refugees who fled civil war in their country.

Nigeria president-elect's party dominates regional vote

Muhammadu Buhari's All Progressives Congress has won governorship elections in at least 19 states out of 36

The party of Nigeria's president-elect Muhammadu Buhari has won governorship elections in a majority of the country's 36 states after a historic presidential win, official results have showed.

The results on Monday showed that the All Progressives Congress took control of at least 19 governor's seats following Saturday's closely-fought regional polls but could add to that tally with results from several states still pending.

Ex-Blackwater guards to be sentenced over shooting

Four former US security guards face long prison terms for role in 2007 shooting that killed 14 civilians in Iraq.

A federal court in Washington is set to sentence four former Blackwater security guards to decades in prison for their roles in a 2007 shooting that killed 14 

Iraqi civilians, causing an international uproar.

Sentencing is scheduled for Monday morning for the ex-guards, who were convicted in October after a long legal fight over the deadly attack at the crowded Nisoor traffick circle in downtown Baghdad .

'Empty words': Donors fail to deliver pledged Gaza aid

Countries have given just 26.8 percent of $3.5bn promised for rebuilding Gaza after the 2014 war, report finds.

Just a quarter of the $3.5bn in aid pledged to rebuild Gaza in the wake of last summer's devastating war has been delivered, according to a new report.

The report from the Association of International Development Agencies, released on Monday, found that only 26.8 percent ($945m) of the money pledged by donors at the Cairo conference six months ago has been released, and reconstruction and recovery have barely started in the besieged coastal enclave.

UN: Majority of Yemen war victims are civilians

Assistant security-general on human rights says both Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels to blame for civilian deaths.

Aid agencies have warned of a growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen as the UN says the majority of people killed in the conflict are civilians, blaming both the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels. 

"Over 600 people [have been] killed [in the conflict], but more than half of them are civilians. This is particularly concerning," Ivan Simonovic, UN's assistant secretary-general for human rights, told Al Jazeera on Monday.