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In Laos, WFP provides school meals to 1,500 schools contributing to the government’s aims to provide good nutrition, promote cognitive and physical development, and improve the health of school children.

WHO delivers trauma medicines and supplies to reinforce trauma care services in areas of east Mosul, Iraq.

Refugee children living in Chad.

In Morroco, people wait to board the tram providing service between Rabat and Salé cities.

Abdulaziz, 10, who lost his father during the war arrives at the 'Land of Childhood' underground playground to play and spend time with his friends.

Fidel Castro’s achievements in improving access to public services for millions of Cubans were tempered by a systemic repression of basic freedoms during his time in power, Amnesty International said following the death of the former Cuban leader.

Today, the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property remains a priority on the political agenda about culture of the South-East European countries. When an object is detached from its context, it can serve no purpose at all. The return of stolen objects to their places of origin is crucial to restore their cultural and spiritual value.

The election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States has now placed the human race at a moment of great, unprecedented potential change. Since the United States, constitutionally, is governed by a Hamiltonian Presidential System, much will depend, in the weeks and months ahead, on the actions and initiatives to be taken by the new President. Yet, our job, that is, the responsibility of what it means to be an American citizen, must be to define—and to fight for—a clear approach as to what the nature of this change must be. Ultimately, what shall be decisive in this battle will be the willingness, among a growing number of Americans, to study and think through the implications of the principles set forth by Lyndon LaRouche in his “The Four New Laws to Save the U.S.A. Now!” as well as their willingness to take up the challenge posed by Mr. LaRouche to study, discuss and master the principles set forth by Alexander Hamilton in his four great Reports of 1791-1792.

During his nearly five decades of rule in Cuba, Fidel Castro built a repressive system that punished virtually all forms of dissent, a dark legacy that lives on even after his death.

The EU should freeze accession negotiations with Turkey in light of the country's vast crackdown that followed the failed July coup, said MEPs in a resolution adopted this week. Also during this week's plenary session MEPs called on EU countries to step up cooperation on defence. On Wednesday Parliament awarded its annual Lux Film Prize to dark comedy Toni Erdmann by German director Maren Ade.