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U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Merchant Ship Near Japan

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The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returns to Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, following a collision with a merchant vessel in the Philippine Sea while operating about 64 miles southwest of Yokosuka, June 17, 2017.

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Terrorist attacks 'major' hurdle to peace in Mali, UN mission chief tells Security Council

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Senegalese UNPOL Officers patrol the streets of Gao, Mali.

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750,000 children at risk of being cut off from safe drinking water after increased shelling in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

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On 1 February 2017, following intense fighting in Avdiivka, Dasha, 1.5 year old, is held by her mother outside a heated emergency shelter in Avdiivka.

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Severe funding gaps threaten assistance to 9 million children in Syria and neighbouring countries

UNICEF has received only a quarter of funding required for children

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On 3 June 2017 in the makeshift camp at Ain Issa, 50 km north of the Raqqa in the Syrian Arab Republic, a boy carries a jerrycan filled with water.

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‘I Can’t Believe He Did This,’ Wife of DC Gunman Says

The wife of the man who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others at a baseball field outside Washington Wednesday said she saw no signs that her husband was planning any violence when he told her he was traveling to the nation’s capital earlier this year.

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WFP Ends Emergency Operation That Helped Many Cope With Severe Drought In Swaziland

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has phased out its emergency operation in Swaziland, after helping up to 230,000 people through drought over the past year. The close of the operation – carried out in support of the Government’s national response – coincided with the end of the lean season last month.

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Myanmar’s investments in children’s early development are paying dividends

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A midwife provides a regular health check for a pregnant woman in Tone Le Village, Tone Le Sub Centre, Nyaung Shwe Township, Shan State, Myanmar.

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1 in 5 children in rich countries lives in relative income poverty, 1 in 8 faces food insecurity – UNICEF

Rich countries face challenges meeting global commitments to children, new report says

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Walid Mechrhale, 14, stands outside the Alkadia youth centre, in the city of Turin, Piedmont Region, Italy.

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General Assembly approves creation of new UN Counter-Terrorism Office

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Peter Thomson (left), President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly. At his side is Movses Abelian, Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.

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WFP Delivers Food To Displaced Families In Syria’s Raqqa And Deir Ezzor

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Through local partners, WFP is providing monthly food assistance to families in need. The food provided includes rice, lentils, beans, bulgur wheat, wheat flour, cooking oil, salt and sugar.