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Amid growing insecurity, time to reassess UN peacekeeping presence in Mali, Security Council told

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Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Mali.

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UN agency for Palestine refugee launches global funding push after US aid cuts

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Pierre Krähenbühl, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, speaks at the launch of the fundraising campaign.

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Liberia: UN welcomes new President’s inauguration as key milestone on country’s road to success

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Newly appointed President of Liberia, George Weah (centre left), walks with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (centre right) during the inauguration ceremony in Monrovia.

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Pence Announces U.S. Embassy to Move to Jerusalem in 2019

After announcing the United States would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, Vice President Mike Pence wraps up a four-day Middle East trip Tuesday by meeting with Israel's president and making visits to a Holocaust remembrance center and the Western Wall.

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Global report: 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises of 2017

CARE report ‘Suffering in Silence’ highlights humanitarian crises around the world that rarely made the news / North Korea, Eritrea and Burundi least covered by media

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Burundian women collect firewood outside Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. The task takes hours and many women carry their babies too. A UNHCR-led initiative is replacing firewood with LPG fuel here to prevent environmental degradation and protect vulnerable refugees from sexual and gender-based violence.

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Statement on the death of 15 Syrians during an overnight storm while they were attempting to enter Lebanese territory

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A young Syrian refugee bundles up against the cold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in January 2016.

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OSCE PA President stresses support for Ukraine, urges ceasefire as critical step to save lives

Concluding a two-day visit to Kyiv on January 19, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) reiterated the steadfast support of the Parliamentary Assembly for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, within its internationally-recognized borders, and renewed calls to reach a sustained ceasefire.

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Her Royal Highness, Princess Haya, Launches New Fund To Support Immediate Response To Global Emergency

Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, a stalwart supporter of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Messenger of Peace, has contributed to the launch of a special fund to allow the rapid purchase and transportation of high energy biscuits in response to sudden onset emergencies. The highly fortified biscuits provide people caught in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters, or conflict, with an immediate source of nutritious food that is packed with energy.

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Amid unprecedented needs, UN, aid partners launch largest consolidated humanitarian appeal for Yemen

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A student stands in the ruins of one of his former classrooms, which was destroyed in June 2015, at the Aal Okab school in Saada, Yemen. Students now attend lessons in UNICEF tents nearby.

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Syrian children succumb to freezing temperatures while crossing into Lebanon – UNICEF

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In this file photograph, a Syrian child refugee, with feet only partially covered in adult sandals, stands in the snow at an informal tented settlement in Lebanon.