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This is a major milestone in preparations at the naval base where £100m has been invested by UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).

It is a measure of the success indigenous and coalition forces have experienced against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria that a meeting of the chiefs of defense from the United States, Turkey and Russia was needed, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on March 10.

Syrian refugee Nasreen Ahmed Sweii poses in Tripoli, in North Lebanon, in this March 2014 portrait. She fled her family home in Homs, Syria, with her four children after her husband was killed.

Antonio Tajani at the summit

WFP is providing school meals each day to more than 17,000 children in Aleppo. School meals are vital to bring children back to school in Syria, and ensure every child has access to education, health and nutrition.

The government of Japan has announced a contribution of USD 7 million to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Food Programme (WFP) to support the Afghan Refugees and host communities in Pakistan.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic deaths of more than 20 girls in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción shelter in Guatemala as a result of a fire in which many others were injured. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and to the people of Guatemala.

Left to right: Nancee Bright (Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict), Lisa Buttenheim (Department of Field Support), Maria Luiza Viotti, Chef de Cabinet, and Christian Saunders (Department of Management), brief the media on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse.

Students of Computer Sciences at Khowaja Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan. Photo: Visual News Associates/World Bank; Rural Women's Cooperative in Guinea. Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade; Women entrepreneurs, workers and small business owners, Lebanon.

Tropical smallholder farmers do not always use protective gear while handling pesticides.