Chemical weapons strike affected 500 people in Syria; refugees face more dangers reaching Europe; Sudan’s prisoner release; will Turkey forcibly return Tajik activists?; killer robots; storm over child rape case in India; what Nigeria’s Chibok schoolgirls did next; free Iranian activist; & what EU should tell Kyrgyzstan’s new president...

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As the governments of the US, France and the UK consider military action in Syria, it's emerged that last weekend's suspected chemical weapons attack on the rebel-held town of Douma - which prompted talk of possible missile strikes from the West - affected some 500 people. At least 70 people are thought to have died in the attack as well, the World Health Organization has said.
Despite a drop in the number of refugees and migrants reaching Europe last year, the dangers many face along the way have in some cases increased, says the UN refugee agency.
Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir just ordered the release of 60 or so “political detainees”, welcome news for those who've languished behind bars for weeks. But it is also a grim reminder of Sudan’s political landscape: the periodic mass arrest and detention of opposition leaders to silence them.
Authorities in Tajikistan have lodged a formal request for Turkey to extradite two Tajik opposition politicians who were detained in Istanbul last month, but there are real fears they may face possible torture in custody upon their return.
It’s five years this month since the launch of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, and while some diplomatic progress has been made, the pace needs to pick up dramatically.
Lawyers in India's Jammu and Kashmir state tried to block police from filing charges against Hindu suspects, who are accused of gang-raping and murdering an eight-year-old Muslim girl.
It's four years since more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Nigeria. Here's what those who managed to escape or were released are doing now.
Iranian authorities should immediately release Golrokh Iraee, a human rights defender who has been hospitalized after medical complications from a hunger strike in Tehran. Iraee was sentenced to six years in prison in April 2015 on charges solely related to her peaceful activism, after an unfair trial.
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