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Adapting to increased military pressure, ISIL shifts to ‘dark web,’ UN Security Council told

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A family climbs out of their destroyed home to flee minutes after an ISIL suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle on the street outside their home in the Al Andalus neighbourhood of Mosul, Iraq.

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Israeli legislation on settlements violates international law, says UN chief Guterres

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Secretary-General António Guterres.

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Government Of Pakistan Continues Strong Support With Wheat Contributions

The Government of Pakistan remains the largest host government donor for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) worldwide with its recent contributions of wheat totaling 50,000 metric tons, valued at approximately USD 19.9 million, to WFP operations in Pakistan.

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Russian probing in eastern Ukraine must stop, say security and defence MEPs

The worsening security situation in eastern Ukraine, where heavy fighting with pro-Russian rebels recently broke out in the government-controlled town of Avdiivka, were debated by Security and Defence Subcommittee MEPs on Monday with Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. MEPs urged Russia to stop testing the West’s reactions and to go on implementing the Minsk agreements.

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Japan Provides 1,700 Metric Tons Of Food To Reduce Stunting Among Children In Karamoja

The Japanese Ambassador to Uganda handed over food to boost nutrition for 50,000 infants, mothers and pregnant women in Karamoja to prevent child stunting in the region on Feb 06.

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Joint UNHCR-UK mission pledges support to Lebanon’s response to Syrian crisis

The United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called for urgent international support to Lebanon and Syrian refugees in a joint visit to the Bekaa Valley, east Lebanon, on February 4.

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Thousands of children out of school after classrooms hit by heavy shelling in eastern Ukraine

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On 26 January, Angelina, 10 years old, a fourth grade student, writes on the blackboard during the class in Marinka school No. 2 in Donetsk region, Ukraine.

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UNICEF seeks $42 million emergency assistance for children caught in conflict and crises in East Asia Pacific

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Hygiene kits and relief supplies are being loaded from UNICEF Warehouse in Yangon, Myanmar for distribution to DRD offices in Monywa and Shwe Bo of Sagaing Region to help children and their families affected by Cyclone Komen.

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The world must make faster progress to end female genital mutilation by 2030

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunder Osotimehin and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on the 2017 International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM

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On 26 January 2016, Kurdistan Resul, 31, a social worker with WADI, an NGO partner of UNICEF, leads a discussion about FGM/C with men from the village of Murtka in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

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The Death of London’s Roman Empire - Part 3

That principled type of distinction has broad implications, but, here, I concentrate attention on one aspect.