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Attack on care home brings new dangers for refugees in Yemen

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The market place in Basateen, the Somali-majority area of Aden in south Yemen has a mix of food stalls, qat sellers and craftsmen.

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UN food aid reaches besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor by air

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A WFP air drop.

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UK launches cross-government taskforce on the ‘Panama Papers’

HMRC experts, who have tracked down £2 billion from offshore tax dodgers since 2010, are already investigating 700 current leads they have with a link to Panama.

UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has announced a new taskforce to deal with the so-called Panama Papers.

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Aging in Thailand – Addressing unmet health needs of the elderly poor

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UK Foreign Secretary in Beijing

UK Foreign Secretary has raised the issue of over-capacity in steel production during talks with the Chinese Foreign Minister in Beijing.

Philip Hammond travelled to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, en route to Hiroshima for the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting.

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Young people contribute to discussion of EU youth policy

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In Geneva, senior UN official urges all-inclusive approach to stop virulent spread of violent extremism

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Director-General of United Nations Office of Geneva (UNOG) Michael Møller addresses the conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, at the Palais des Nations.

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Remembering Rwanda, Ban urges a firm stand against hate speech

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In 1996 in Rwanda, wooden crosses mark the graves in a cemetery in the village of Nyanza in a rural area of Kigali, the capital. During the 1994 genocide, over 10,000 people were burned to death in Nyanza as they tried to escape towards Burundi.

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UNICEF urges full hearings for refugee and migrant children stranded in Greece

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Child refugees in Idomeni, Greece, March 2016

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Political progress to end Darfur conflict through dialogue ‘remains elusive’ – UN peacekeeping chief

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Displaced persons in Sortoni, North Darfur, Sudan, who fled their original homes and sought refuge near UNAMID’s Team Site following ongoing clashes between armed movements and government forces in the Jebel Marra area.