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n his annual report to the Human Rights Council, Zeid Raad al-Hussein said a draft EU-Turkey agreement on handling the migration crisis announced this week raises serious concerns, including "the potential for collective and arbitrary expulsions" from the bloc. Migrants queue for food portions at the Greek border camp near Idomeni, Thursday, March 10, 2016. After nearly three days of rain, conditions in the refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian where about 14,000 people are stranded have deteriorated significantly, with many of its residents struggling to re-pitch their small camping tents in slightly drier patches. The Latest on the continuing issues of mass migration to Europe (all times local). 2:30 p.m. The U.N. human rights chief is denouncing a growing "race to repel" migrants and refugees by some European governments, and says he plans to raise his concerns in Brussels before a European Union summit next week.

A judge in South Africa found a woman guilty Thursday of kidnapping a newborn nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raising the girl as her own, a spokesman for the prosecution said. eleste Nurse, the mother of a child kidnapped in 1997, leaves a court, in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, March. 10, 2016. A judge in South Africa has found a woman guilty of kidnapping a baby nearly two decades ago and raising it as her own. The African News Agency reported that Judge John Hlophe in Cape Town convicted the woman of kidnapping, fraud and contravening child protection laws. Judge John Hlophe in Cape Town convicted the woman of kidnapping, fraud and contravening child protection laws, said Eric Ntabazalila, spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority. The judge revoked bail and the woman will be detained until her May 30 sentencing, he said.

Iran's foreign ministry insisted on Thursday that the missile tests carried out by the country's Revolutionary Guard this week do not violate Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution. In this photo obtained from the Iranian Fars News Agency, a Qadr H long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile is fired by Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, during a maneuver, in an undisclosed location in Iran, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard test-fired two ballistic missiles Wednesday with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" written on them, a show of deterrence power by the Islamic Republic as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. According to ministry spokesman, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, the missiles were "conventional defensive instruments and they were merely for legitimate defense," the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran...

Israel said Thursday it is looking into the shooting death of a Palestinian attacker who killed an American student in a stabbing spree earlier this week. In Tuesday's attack, the Palestinian assailant ran through the ancient port city of Jaffa with a knife, stabbing several people along his way, until he was shot by a police officer. Israeli soldiers check Palestinians at a checkpoint on the road to the village of Hajja near the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Israeli army imposed the blockade after a Palestinian from the village killed an American tourist and wounded nearly a dozen people in the city of Jaffa on Tuesday. Israel's Justice Ministry said the routine check is conducted after every shooting incident by police. It follows a video that emerged from the scene of the Jaffa stabbing, showing the attacker lying on the ground as an onlooker yells at the officer to shoot him "in the head." A sound that appears to be gunfire is he...