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The challenges to ending displacement in Nigeria

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Angèle Dikongué-Atangana, UNHCR Representative in Nigeria.

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Terrorist attacks: MEPs demand more information-sharing and coordination in EU

The urgent need to step up information-sharing among EU member states and between them and Europol to fight terrorism, the work on the Passenger Name Records data (EU PNR) proposal and the de-radicalisation of EU citizens joining terrorist organisations were among the topics discussed by MEPs with Europol chief Rob Wainwright and Council and Commission representatives on Thursday.

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Settling Israeli-Palestinian conflict would help curb terrorism, says UN Middle East envoy

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In At Tur, near Al Maqassad hospital in East Jerusalem, one of several roadblocks, placed by Israeli forces in October 2015 in Palestinian neighbourhoods, as the wave of violence across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel continued.

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Universal Children’s Day: Why fair matters

UNICEF Ambassadors Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Sir Roger Moore, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Priyanka Chopra, Novak Djokovic, Mia Farrow, Ishmael Beah, Susan Sarandon and Angelique Kidjo join forces to fight today’s unfair world for children

The world remains a deeply unfair place for the poorest and most disadvantaged children despite major advances since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, according to a UNICEF report released on November 20.

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Revised EU Neighbourhood Policy must focus on security and migration, say MEPs

MEPs called on Wednesday for more focus on migration and security and more flexibility in the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), after foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and neighbourhood policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn presented their proposals for a new ENP to the foreign affairs committee.

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Yemen: UN warns humanitarian situation has deteriorated 'drastically' as conflict claims 5,700 lives

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WHO has so far delivered 960,000 liters of safe water to the population of Al-Mothafar, Sala and Al-Qahera district of Taiz City, Yemen.

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Children’s futures being compromised as violence escalates in Burundi, says UNICEF

Children risk bearing the brunt of an escalation in violence in Burundi, UNICEF warned on November 18, noting that the crisis has already left 17 children dead and many more injured.

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German Foreign Minister: "There are no obvious recipes for tackling terrorism"

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Frank-Walter Steinmeier during the meeting with the foreign affairs committee

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Asylum-seekers await application results at historic Berlin airport

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Asylum-seekers stay in temporary accommodation in one of three huge hangars at Berlin Tempelhof Airport.

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UNHCR chief says it is "absolute nonsense" to blame refugees for terror

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić in the processing centre at Presevo where refugees are registered.