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Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan tell UNHCR head Filippo Grandi and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock why they fled.

It is impossible to overstate the suffering faced by the people of South Sudan. We are here today on their behalf - those who remain in the country, and those who have fled to nations in this region that have opened their borders in hospitality, including Kenya.

In a hearing on Thursday, MEPs of the Civil Liberties, Employment and Petitions committees underlined that they will continue fighting to ensure that both EU nationals living in the UK and British citizens in other member states will enjoy their full set of rights throughout their lifetime.

One person has died and several others were injured when an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress collided with a garbage truck Wednesday in southwestern Virginia.

After returning to Nigeria from Cameroon, families wait to receive emergency food items, mattresses and shelter materials in Banki, in north-east Nigeria, May 2017.

Colonel Valery Revenko (l), First Deputy Head of the International Military Co-operation Department of Belarus' Defence Ministry, and Matti Saarelainen, Director of the Finland-based European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, addressing OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation session on importance of transparency and reliability of military information, Vienna, 31 January 2018.

Wisconsin voters this spring will choose a new state Supreme Court justice to fill the first open seat on the high court in more than a decade. Voters will narrow the field from three candidates to two in the February primary; the two finalists will face each other in the April 3 election. The winner will serve a 10-year term on the court.

African leaders were very close to officially demanding President Donald Trump publicly apologize for reportedly crude remarks about the continent and immigration, but backed off, reports say.

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) and Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, in conversation during the opening of the 2018 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum.

From 21-24 February 2016, UNRWA distributed 19,160 thermal blankets to approximately 5,700 Palestinian refugee and other civilian families from the besieged and hard to reach Syrian communities of Yarmouk, Yalda, Babila and Beit Saham.