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Iran Announces Resumption of Uranium Enrichment at Fordow

Iran’s nuclear agency Thursday announced resumption of uranium enrichment at the country’s underground Fordow nuclear facility, a site where, under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, it had agreed not to carry out any enrichment or enrichment-related research.

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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Print this page Comments Africa International Criminal Court Sentences Ntaganda to 30 Years

The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison Thursday for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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UNHCR flies in relief for Somalis cut off by flooding

An airplane – a Fokker 50 cargo freighter - carrying six metric tons of aid items from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, landed on November 4 in Belet Weyne in Somalia’s Hiirshabelle state to assist people displaced by the country’s worst flooding in years.

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UN peacekeepers warn of increasing global challenges

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A peacekeeping officer during a patrol in the streets of Gao, Mali, performed daily by United Nations Police (UNPOL) Officers from MINUSMA and Malian National Guard Officers. 7 November 2018.

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UNHCR troubled by latest U.S. refugee resettlement cut

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is troubled by the U.S. decision, announced on November 2, to reduce, substantially and for the third consecutive year, the number of refugees it will admit for resettlement in the United States over the coming year.

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Somali refugees return home from Yemen in latest UNHCR-facilitated departure

More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. In the latest departure, a boat carrying 114 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden on Monday and arrived at the Port of Berbera in Somalia on October 29.

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‘Violence, atrocities and impunity’ reign throughout Libya, ICC prosecutor tells UN Security Council

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At the Qanfoodah Detention Centre in Benghazi, Libya, male Afrian detainees wait to be declared present at a morning roll call.

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Immediate action needed in South Asia to clean the air for children

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on toxic air in South Asia

“I was just in South Asia where I saw first-hand how children continue to suffer from the dire consequences of air pollution.

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Nearly two million Cameroonians face humanitarian emergency: UNICEF

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A child sits at her desk at a UNICEF-supported government primary school, in Douala, Cameroon.

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Microplastics, microbeads and single-use plastics poisoning sea life and affecting humans

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Trash at a beach in Bali where the UN Environment Programme launched the Clean Seas Campaign.