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UNHCR urges States to act now to save lives in the Andaman Sea

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is reminding States in the region that some 190 desperate people are on the verge of perishing at sea, adrift somewhere between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal as pleas to rescue and disembark them are continuously...

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More than twenty million children suffering in the Horn of Africa as drought intensifies – UNICEF

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On 27 October 2022 in Puntland, Somalia, 1-year-old Aisha Mohamed is held by her mother, Isniino Ali, while being treated for...

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Zelenskyy: Russia ‘Is Killing for the Sake of Intimidation and Pleasure’

Russia is "killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure,” Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram Saturday after a Russian strike killed at least five people and wounded twenty in the recently liberated city of Kherson.

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With a fifth of the world’s forcibly displaced in the Americas, UNHCR’s Grandi calls for urgent solutions

With one-fifth of the world’s 100 million forcibly displaced people hosted in the Americas, urgent action is needed to respond to and resolve their plight, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said, as he concluded a week-long visit to the...

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