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Donors Announce $528 Million in Funding to Scale Up Aid Delivery to People in Urgent Need in DRC

International donors, on April 13th, announced US$528 million to support the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid to millions of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The announcements were made at a humanitarian conference in Geneva co-chaired by the United Nations, the European Union and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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Djukanovic Set to Win Montenegro Presidency

Preliminary projections show six-time prime minister and onetime president Milo Djukanovic as the winner of Montenegro's presidential election.

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GOP Rallies Around Trump Ahead of Comey's Memoir

U.S. President Donald Trump's supporters are mounting an online campaign to try to discredit a forthcoming memoir by former FBI Director James Comey.

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Municipality of Venice and OSCE sign agreement to deepen tried and tested anti-trafficking partnership

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OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, and Commissioner of the Municipality of Venice, Mr. Simone Venturini, during the signing ceremony of an agreement strengthening co-operation between the OSCE and the Municipality of Venice regarding victim protection and the fight against organized criminal networks involved in trafficking.

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Humanitarian agencies working in DPR Korea urgently require $111m for life-saving aid

The humanitarian community in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is urgently requesting US$111 million to assist millions of people in need of humanitarian assistance.

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Illicit trafficking of cultural property and gender mainstreaming focus of annual meeting of OSCE National Focal Points on Border Security

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National Focal Points during a study visit to the History of Art Museum, Vienna, 11 April 2018.

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OSCE Special Representative Sajdik and Chief Monitor Apakan call for restraint and full adherence to ceasefire amid upsurge in violence

A recent upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine threatens the lives and wellbeing of the civilian population and further undermines the ceasefire upon which their security and safety depend, said the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group, Martin Sajdik, and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, on April 12.

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Study: Holocaust Fading from American Memory

As people around the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, once again promising to "never forget" the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II, a new study shows Americans appear to be doing just that.

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Azerbaijan’s Aliyev Wins 7-Year Term on Top of 15 Served

Azerbaijan's longtime president, Ilham Aliyev, won a fourth term Wednesday in an election boycotted by the opposition.

Election officials said they expected Aliyev to finish with 86 percent of the vote.

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UNHCR Desperate Journeys report provides snapshot of changing refugee movements to Europe

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Refugee woman from Eritrea comforting her friend on the transfer bus at the airport in Italy.