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Nepal Earthquakes: 12 babies born every hour without basic healthcare in worst hit areas – UNICEF

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Patali sits on a cot while holding her 3-hour-old son sit in the UNICEF-supported Trishuli Hospital, in the city of Bidur, Nepal.

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Yemen: UN chief hails important humanitarian pause as critical aid reaches civilians

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Due to fuel shortages, donkey carts are still used as an alternative transportation method to deliver safe water to health facilities and camps for internally displaced persons in Hodeida, Yemen.

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Hundreds of children released by armed groups in Central African Republic

More than 300 children, including several under 12 years old, have been released from armed groups in the Central African Republic following a UNICEF-facilitated agreement by the groups’ leaders to free all children in their ranks.

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The pain of an Iraqi family separated in flight from Ramadi in Anbar province

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Imad, aged 28, with two of his children in the Arbat site in Sulaymaniyah province. They fled from Ramadi in Anbar province, where relatives are trapped, including eight-year-old Zaynib and her grandparents. "it's hardest for my daughters," Imad said, "they miss their older sister."

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UNHCR urges governments to continue high seas live-saving operations

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Fishing boats head out into the Bay of Bengal. UNHCR fears thousands could be stranded on smugglers' boats and in need of rescue.

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UNHCR chief visits Somali port of Kismayo, meets refugee returnees

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High Commissioner Guterres meets refugee returnees to discuss the challenges they have faced since leaving Kenya and settling in the Somali port of Kismayo.

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Georgian president: Russia gains more from working with Europe than from attacking its neighbours

How should the EU interact with its neighbours to the east? Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili shared his views when he joined the foreign affairs committee on 11 May to discuss the Eastern Partnership ahead of the summit in Riga on 21-22 May.

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Ahead of humanitarian pause, Yemen sees ‘deadliest’ week of fighting – UN

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Children play as a donkey cart passes destroyed buildings in the Al-Ora's neighbourhood of Zinjibar, Yemen.

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Put migrant children’s rights on EU agenda, urges UNICEF

UNICEF proposes plan for protection of migrant children

On the eve of the adoption of the EU Migration Agenda, UNICEF is calling for the rights and wellbeing of migrant children to be at the heart of Europe’s immigration policy and for the European Union to be guided by the values it cherishes.

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EU needs to earmark money to withstand Russia, say Foreign Affairs MEPs

As a return to "business as usual" with Russia is now out of the question, the EU should earmark specific funding to counter its propaganda and infiltration of EU politics and support independence movements there, say Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs in a resolution voted on Monday. EU countries should refrain from doing bilateral deals with Russia and step up their own collective efforts to withstand it, whilst retaining a return to cooperation with Russia as a long-term goal, they add.