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Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan tell UNHCR head Filippo Grandi and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock why they fled.

The Swedish Government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement on Jan 02, with Sweden making a historic commitment of approximately US$370 million in flexible funds to WFP over the next four years (2018 to 2021). The contribution is the largest ever made by a donor within a WFP Strategic Partnership Agreement.

A White House official says President Donald Trump plans to approve the release of a classified memo alleging that top law enforcement officials were biased against the president.

UNHCR staff and local authorities assist recently arrived Cameroonians seeking refuge in Obanliku, south-east Nigeria, October 2017.

Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan tell UNHCR head Filippo Grandi and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock why they fled.

It is impossible to overstate the suffering faced by the people of South Sudan. We are here today on their behalf - those who remain in the country, and those who have fled to nations in this region that have opened their borders in hospitality, including Kenya.

In a hearing on Thursday, MEPs of the Civil Liberties, Employment and Petitions committees underlined that they will continue fighting to ensure that both EU nationals living in the UK and British citizens in other member states will enjoy their full set of rights throughout their lifetime.

One person has died and several others were injured when an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress collided with a garbage truck Wednesday in southwestern Virginia.

After returning to Nigeria from Cameroon, families wait to receive emergency food items, mattresses and shelter materials in Banki, in north-east Nigeria, May 2017.

Colonel Valery Revenko (l), First Deputy Head of the International Military Co-operation Department of Belarus' Defence Ministry, and Matti Saarelainen, Director of the Finland-based European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, addressing OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation session on importance of transparency and reliability of military information, Vienna, 31 January 2018.