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Celebrating UNAMID UN Day in Hasahisa IDPs Camp in Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan. (2019)

Secretary-General António Guterres is photographed by a student during a visit to a school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at Baqa’a Camp in Jordan.

Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, UNICEF said on Dec 29, 2019. Since the start of the decade, the United Nations has verified more than 170,000 grave violations against children in conflict – the equivalent of more than 45 violations every day for the last 10 years.

In Kabul, Afghanistan, school children hold hands and take advantage of the last few moments of sunlight to finish their game.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday lawmakers will vote in early January on a measure seeking authorization to send troops to Libya in support of the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said Thursday that China had sailed its newest aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait for a second time.

For the first time, a high-level donor delegation, comprising representatives from Belgium, Norway, Spain and Switzerland, together with a Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF) team, has visited two communities in Quneitra governorate, southern Syria, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Syria announced 23 December 2019.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has “strongly" condemned an attack carried out the day before by unidentified gunmen in northern Burkina Faso.

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