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Security Council extends UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another year

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At Security Council, UN officials spotlight need for effective and accountable security institutions

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Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura (right), speaking with Security Council President for August, Joy Ogwu, at the Council’s special briefing on security sector reform.

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Athens accommodation site opens for new arrivals in Greece

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Five-year old Melina is staying with her mother, Marzia, at the new temporary accommodation site in Eleonas, Athens.

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At Security Council, UN relief chief cites ‘incomprehensible’ scale of human suffering in Yemen

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Under-Secretary-General for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O’Brien (centre) with local authorities and media on 9 August 2015 in front of the Governorate of Amran, Yemen, that got destroyed in an airstrike.

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World Humanitarian Day: UNHCR chief pays tribute to sacrifice of aid workers

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UNHCR staff member Paul Kenya registers refugees from Burundi as they board a bus to take them to the new Mahama refugee camp in the Bugesera Reception Centre in Rwanda in May.

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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquity

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UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova

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Statement by Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director on attack on teachers’ office in Yemen

Last night, 13 educators and four of their children paid a most terrible price in the continuing conflict in Yemen – killed in an airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, just north of Sana’a. Twenty people, including one child, were injured. The latest casualties inflicted by all sides.

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UNESCO chief deplores killing of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquities

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Archaeological site of Palmyra in Syria.

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UNHCR to help Libya improve response to boats in distress off its coast

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Specialized local operators carrying coffin of one victim of marine accident off the coast of Libya.

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Numbers of refugee arrivals to Greece increase dramatically.

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Dozens of refugees arrived in Greece by sea last month, mainly from countries experiencing war and conflict.