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UNHCR launches appeal to aid refugees as winter hits Europe

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A refugee huddles up against the cold on the border between Serbia and Croatia.

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Schulz in Lesbos: "People are really running for their lives"

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EP President, Martin Schulz, is in Lesbos.

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham sees how his Fund is helping children in Papua New Guinea

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MOUNT HAGEN, Papua New Guinea, 5 November 2015 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham meets children receiving treatment for malnutrition at a UNICEF-supported hospital in Papua New Guinea.

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‘Magnitude of dangers facing Libya should not be underestimated,’ UN envoy tells Security Council

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Outgoing Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Léon, briefs the Security Council.

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First asylum-seekers relocate from Greece to Luxembourg

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Asylum-seekers board a flight from Athens to Luxembourg.

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Manolis Kefalogiannis: "Turkey should take steps to modernise"

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Manolis Kefalogiannis

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Urgent action needed to address child statelessness

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Joe Hullman, 13, works at San Pedro de Macoris municipal dump during his summer vacations looking for metal scraps in San Pedro de Macoris, in Dominican Republic.

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UN chief concerned by continuous exercise of hate speech ahead of Myanmar elections

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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South Sudan: UN mission secures safe release of all personnel taken hostage in Upper Nile state

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Peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMISS) man a guard post overlooking a POC (Protection of Civilians) site in Juba.

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Germany Can Make History: The Decision for War or Peace

In the present historical period—in which virtually all seemingly reliable assumptions about society are becoming obsolete, and everyone senses that we are faced with the heavy issues of war and peace, of ‘to be or not to be,’ of collapse into chaos or a new Classical Renaissance—Germany is one of the few actors on the grand stage of world politics that can help determine which of the two alternatives comes to pass.