The conflict has claimed more than 10,000 lives and displaced another 1.5 million people.
The head of French police deployed in Calais says British soldiers could bolster an understaffed force.
Ukraine hopes the policy change will help improve its relations with Europe.
The nine migrants, mostly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, were trying to reach the northern French city of Calais that connects France to the U.K. through a concrete tunnel under the English Channel.
About 800,000 youths have been displaced by the African nation's civil war, and nearly half of them have dropped out of school, a report found.
The sentencing comes after U.S. President Barack Obama’s controversial trip to Ethiopia, during which he called on the government to improve its record on human rights.
While British politicians are talking tough on the migrant crisis facing the country, refugees in France are determined to get to the U.K. at any cost.
The keynote address Tuesday in Ethiopia's capital marked the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's five-day, two-nation tour of East Africa.
President Obama ended his tour of East Africa with a speech Tuesday at the African Union in Ethiopia. He is the first U.S. president to ever address the 54-member regional bloc.
Ethiopia has long been considered one of the most repressive regimes in Africa, but it has faced little pushback from Washington.
U.S. President Barack Obama may press for South Sudan peace talks, but no breakthrough is expected, a senior administration official says.
Government forces ran down fleeing civilians with tanks, then rolled back to make sure they were dead.
South African President Jacob Zuma has known about the problem for two months but put off treatment because of his schedule.
Egypt has arrested more than 600 Egyptian and Sudanese people in the past month for trying to emigrate illegally.
Some say gaining Olympic status would help South Sudan boost national pride and bridge the warring sides of a raging civil war.
Hillary Clinton assails financial executives who break the law, even though her family has accepted money from banks that admitted wrongdoing.
The former secretary of state gave a speech on Monday in New York that outlined a progressive economic agenda.
The controversial Italy-based security firm Hacking Team's other clients include Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and several U.S. agencies.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has been blamed for rising violence in the country.
The United Nation's children's fund warned that the ongoing cholera outbreak in South Sudan could claim a devastating number of lives if it spreads to war-torn areas.
In a landmark case, an Israeli attorney general has ruled in favor of the release of an African asylum seeker.
Thousands of migrants hoping to enter the U.K. are living in camps around Calais that face shortages of food and water.