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South Korea receives first refugees in pilot programme

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A group of Myanmar refugees waves on arrival at the Incheon Airport of South Korea.

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Hailing political accord, Security Council urges international aid against terrorist groups in Libya

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Signing of the Libyan Political Agreement in Skhirat, Morocco, 17 December 2015.

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Survival a struggle in Eastern Ukraine as winter looms

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Displaced Ukrainian single mother Nina poses with her five children after their return from school.

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Central African Republic: ICC Prosecutor warns against election-related violence, atrocity crimes

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Voters in the PK5 area of the capital Bangui after casting ballots in the Central African Republic referendum from 13 to 14 December 2015 on a new draft constitution for the country.

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Chios: Greek island battles odds to cope with refugee influx

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Mohammad Nofal Yassin, a Palestinian from Syria, with his twin daughters Awham and Hanan and his son Ahmed shortly after registration in Tabakika on Chios island.

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With parties ‘deeply divided over path to peace,’ Yemen faces Balkanization, Security Council warned

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Yemenis in Sana’a search for survivors after a bombing by the Saudi-Arabia led coalition.

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A million refugees and migrants flee to Europe in 2015

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A volunteer life-guard helps a young girl out of the sea after the boat she used along with her family and other Afghan refugees to cross part of the Aegean from the coast of Turkey to Lesbos towards the end of 2015 crashed on a rock off the island's coast.

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Despite progress, Afghanistan faces major economic, security and political challenges in 2016 – UN envoy

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Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Nicholas Haysom briefs the Security Council.

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Uganda hosts record 500,000 refugees and asylum-seekers

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Burundian refugee Larson talks with a customer at his pharmacy in Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda.

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2015 likely to break records for forced displacement - study

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Central African Republic refugees at the Timangolo site in Cameroon, including mothers and young children, queue for food.

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