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Sri Lanka’s Food Production Hit By Extreme Drought Followed By Floods

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Breakthrough As WFP Food Convoy Reaches Besieged Syrian Town

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For almost one year, WFP has only been able to bring food to families in Qamishli via airlifts.

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Crisis ‘far from over’ as malnutrition, thirst and disease threaten lives of millions of children in north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen

Continued humanitarian action crucial in saving children’s lives

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Angelina Nyanin, 25, holds her niece, Nyalel Gatcauk, 2, who suffers from malnutrition, as a UNICEF nutrition worker measures her arm during a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) mission in Thonyor, Leer county, South Sudan.

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Global narcotics market 'thriving;' range of available drugs diversifying at alarming pace – UN

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Drug seizures, South Africa.

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South Sudan famine ebbs, but situation still desperate as hunger spreads

More than 6 million people now facing hunger driven largely by conflict

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Jane Tiko feeds a therapeutic formula to her nine-month-old son Simon Ladok in the malnutrition ward in the Al-Sabbah children's hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

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As crises multiply, UN revises annual aid appeal to assist over 100 million around the world

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A medical worker registers young patients in the small rural village of An-Nassiri, located about 60 km from Al Hudaydah, Yemen. Only 45 per cent of health facilities in the war-torn country are currently functioning.

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World population to hit 9.8 billion by 2050, despite nearly universal lower fertility rates – UN

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A view of passengers aboard trains connecting the suburbs of Kolkata, India.

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Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on returns to northeast Nigeria

I am extremely worried that large numbers of Nigerian refugees hosted in Cameroon are again returning to northeast Nigeria - into a situation dangerously unprepared to receive them.

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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie in Nairobi, appeals for child refugees

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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets children and siblings of vulnerable female refugees in Nairobi.

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Turkey: changing the constitution could end up in freezing EU accession talks

Turkey’s EU accession talks should be suspended if the proposed changes to the constitution go ahead, committee MEPs recommended on Tuesday.