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Zimbabwe's Top Court to Rule Friday on Presidential Election Challenge

Zimbabwe’s highest court is expected to issue a ruling Friday on a petition in which the country’s main opposition group is seeking a nullification of July 30 presidential election won by the incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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‘Finding global solutions for global problems’ focus of UN-civil society forum

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Participants of the 67th United Nations DPI/NGO Conference, held under the theme “We the Peoples…Together Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems”.

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Trump Tries to Rally Voters With Illegal Immigration Issue

President Donald Trump has repeatedly used immigration as a means of rallying voters, both during his campaign and his presidency and is returning to it as a wedge issue for the November elections.

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Nobody in today’s world should be held in slavery

To mark the Slave Trade Remembrance Day, a descendant of William Wilberforce John Gaselee reflects on continuing his legacy today

A lot has changed – for the better. When I joined Anti-Slavery International – its name was a more old-fashioned Anti-Slavery Society at that time – as a member, most people were genuinely surprised to learn that slavery still existed. They thought it was something for the history books.

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Investment in education desperately needed to avert “lost generation” of Rohingya children – UNICEF

One year after mass exodus from Myanmar, the futures of more than 500,000 refugee children in Bangladesh are in the balance

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On 5 August 2018 in Hakimpara Refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tasmin, 10, (left), a Bangladeshi student, helps her friend Rajima, 10, (right), a Rohingya refugee, with her studies.

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A coalition of 171 environmental organizations authored a letter to conferees meeting to finalize the farm bill urging lawmakers to reject “poison pill” provisions that were included in the House version of the legislation. The groups contend that many of

U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser says the reimposition of economic sanctions against Iran has had a "profound effect," and the administration wants to go further than the measures in place before the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

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Alarming Number of Rohingya Children Orphaned by Brutal Violence – Save the Children Study

One in two Rohingya children who fled to Bangladesh without their parents were orphaned by brutal violence, new research by Save the Children suggests ahead of the one-year anniversary of the crisis on Saturday, August 25.

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‘Stop and listen’ to victims of terrorism, UN chief urges in message marking international day

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Secretary-General António Guterres speaking at the Wreath-laying Ceremony for the Observance of the 15th Anniversary of the Bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad, on 17 August 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York.

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UN chief welcomes event reuniting families on the Korean Peninsula

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Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the media at UN Headquarters.

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Ecuador Calls for Regional Summit on Venezuelan Migrants

The Ecuadorian government is asking 13 other South American nations to attend a regional summit to discuss the Venezuelan migrant crisis.