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South Sudan: UN deplores deadly attack as tensions in country simmer

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UNMISS Indian Battalion conduct an operation to extract civilians who were stranded during fighting in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal, South Sudan.

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Yemen: amid unfolding humanitarian “catastrophe,” Ban calls for end to hostilities

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Smoke fills the sky above the Yemeni capital Sana’a after a series of airstrikes (12 May).

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UNHCR head tells humanitarian NGOs "moment of truth" has arrived

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UN High Commissioner for refugees, António Guterres, opens UNHCR's annual NGO consultations.

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Urgent action needed to tackle child labour caused by Syrian Crisis: Save the Children and UNICEF

The conflict and humanitarian crisis in Syria are pushing an ever increasing number of children into exploitation in the labour market, and much more needs to be done to reverse the trend, according to a new report released by Save the Children and UNICEF.

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Luxembourg takes over Council presidency: Luxembourg MEPs share their expectations

Starting Wednesday, the rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the EU will be in the hands of one of the smallest, yet most experience member states. Luxembourg will have to deal with many pressing issues, including the Greek debt crisis, an increase in irregular migration and the preparation for the climate change conference in Paris in December. We asked all of the country's six MEPs what they see as the main challenges.

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Thousands of refugees continue to flee Burundi - UNHCR

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Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, wait on the shore of Lake Tanganyika to be transferred by boat to Kigoma and then on to Nyaragusu refugee camp.

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UNHCR's new biometrics system helps verify 110,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand.

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In Thailand's Tham Hin camp, a UNHCR staff member captures the iris scan of a refugee from Myanmar for the new biometrics system.

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Numbers of internally displaced in Libya double since September - UNHCR

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Children play in an alley at a refugee camp near the Libyan capital Tripoli that now hosts internally displaced people from the town of Tawargha, south of Misrata.

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Germanwings crash: how to improve aviation safety in the EU

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Patrick Ky (right), executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, during the meeting with the transport committee.

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Internal displacement doubles in Libya since September, UN refugee agency warns

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A young internally displaced girl carries her sister at the marine academy near Tripoli.