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Mosul fighting forces 5,640 Iraqis to flee their homes - IOM | Reuters

GENEVA The fighting around the Iraqi city of Mosul has forced 5,640 people to flee their homes in the last three days, the International Organization for Migration said on Thursday, most of them in the last 24 hours.The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said people were also fleeing to the east from the west of the city after heavy air strikes and shelling in the west.Nine hundred families from Mosul district, or about 5,400 people, had been taken to a reception centre in the village of Al-Hood in Qayyarah, UNHCR said. Another 240 people from Hamdaniyah district, east of Mosul, had been transferred to the Debaga reception centre, it said.

Host families struggle to help thousands who have fled Afghanistan's Kunduz | Reuters

By Zabihullah Noori LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Afghans who have fled fighting in the northern city of Kunduz since it fell to the Taliban a week ago are suffering dire conditions with host families already living in poverty, aid agencies and residents said on Monday.Afghan forces have been battling to drive Taliban fighters from the city which the insurgents entered unexpectedly at the start of last week. [nL5N1CE086]Most people had no chance to take any belongings with them, said Geeta Bashardost, a women's rights activist from Kunduz who fled to the capital, Kabul."I fled Kunduz on the first day of fighting, but all my family is back in the city under the rockets and mortar shells of Taliban and government forces," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.The United Nations said on Thursday that as many as 10,000 refugees had arrived in Kabul and northern towns including Taloqan and Mazar-i-Sharif

Firefighters gain ground on Southern California wildfire | Reuters

Victims of clashes overwhelm hospital in Indian Kashmir | Reuters

Heavy rain in China kills at least 87, thousands evacuated | Reuters

SHANGHAI Heavy rain in China has killed at least 87 people and forced thousands from their homes, state media reported on Saturday. Seventy-two people have been killed and 78 are missing in the northern province of Hebei after rain triggered floods and landslides, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the civil affairs department. Nearly 50,000 homes have collapsed, it said.

UN launches appeal for $393 million humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

The United Nations has launched an appeal for $393 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to reach millions of vulnerable people this year.

U.N., World Bank to launch refugee and reconstruction bonds | Reuters

LIMA International agencies plan to raise billions of dollars to tackle the worsening refugee crisis in the Middle East and North Africa by issuing new bonds to help displaced people and support reconstruction in the war-torn region.

Guess what? Only 3.35% of unsold homes in Mumbai region are ready to move in apartments

Only 2,600 or 3.35% of the total 77,460 unsold residential units across Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai are ready for possession, according to data compiled by property advisory JLL India and Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai).

Biggest online home sale till date: Mantri Developers sells Rs 6 cr worth penthouse on Snapdeal

In a deal considered to be one of the most expensive online apartment buys in India, ecommerce major Snapdeal has sold a penthouse in Bengaluru for Rs 6 croreto a buyer named Poornima.

HDFC finds India's real estate to be affordable. Here's why it is wrong

The home loan lender HDFC in its latest investor presentation says that homes have seen an “improved affordability”. This goes against everything that one sees in the real estate sector these days, where prices have gone so high that most people wanting to buy a home to live in, can't.