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Chios: Greek island battles odds to cope with refugee influx
Mohammad Nofal Yassin, a Palestinian from Syria, with his twin daughters Awham and Hanan and his son Ahmed shortly after registration in Tabakika on Chios island.
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With parties ‘deeply divided over path to peace,’ Yemen faces Balkanization, Security Council warned
Yemenis in Sana’a search for survivors after a bombing by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition.
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A million refugees and migrants flee to Europe in 2015
A volunteer life-guard helps a young girl out of the sea after the boat she used along with her family and other Afghan refugees to cross part of the Aegean from the coast of Turkey to Lesbos towards the end of 2015 crashed on a rock off the island's coast.
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Despite progress, Afghanistan faces major economic, security and political challenges in 2016 – UN envoy
Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Nicholas Haysom briefs the Security Council.
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Uganda hosts record 500,000 refugees and asylum-seekers
Burundian refugee Larson talks with a customer at his pharmacy in Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda.
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2015 likely to break records for forced displacement - study
Central African Republic refugees at the Timangolo site in Cameroon, including mothers and young children, queue for food.
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Schulz at the EU summit: "It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States"
"It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States, and wave the illusion that retreating behind national borders somehow immunises against - often home-grown - terrorists", said the EP President Schulz in his opening speech before the European Council of 17-18 December dedicated to pressing issues, such as migration, counter terrorism and the British referendum. "If we want to preserve our freedom of movement, then we must act fast and decisively."
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Syria: Senior UN official calls for immediate end to use of sexual violence by all sides as weapon of war
Welcoming the Security Council's unanimous adoption of a blueprint for peace in Syria, a senior United Nations official has called on all sides to immediately stop using sexual violence as a tactic in the fighting tearing the country apart.
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EU leaders face calls to bridge divide on migrants
European leaders holding a year-end summit on Thursday were urged to bury their differences over the migration crisis and restore the security of the 28-nation EU's crumbling borders.
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Freeze EU aid to the Burundi government, say MEPs
Growing insecurity, the lack of political moves towards reconciliation and worsening humanitarian conditions in Burundi, a country that tops the Global Hunger Index, are highlighted by MEPs in a resolution voted by a show of hands on Thursday. They welcome consultations under the Cotonou Agreement that could lead to suspension of EU aid to the Burundi government, and ask the EU and its member states to consider re-directing non-humanitarian EU aid to civil society there.
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