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UNHCR is trucking in clean water as one of the responses to the cholera outbreak in the Kagunga area of Tanzania.

The UN refugee agency and its partners are preparing aid for some 11,000 people who fled the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra and surrounding villages when they were overrun by militant forces this week.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The police in Bujumbura, Burundi, have increasingly broken up opposition party gatherings.

One month after the first of two major earthquakes hit Nepal, an estimated 70,000 children under five are at risk of malnutrition and require urgent humanitarian support - according to UNICEF.

Noted investigative journalist Seymour Hersh just penned a ten thousand-word exposé of the Obama Administration’s fraudulent account of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Obama and his White House coterie of spin-meisters have just suffered another serious blow. Beyond that, the Hersh revelations have once again shined a spotlight on the prominent role of the Saudi monarchy in promoting and protecting international jihadist terrorism.

An atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 1 November 1952.

Ten projects worth nearly £3.5 million will form the first tranche of projects of the UK’s Good Governance Fund, Prime Minister David Cameron said at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on May 22.

Analysis by UK health sector regulator found foundation trusts treated a record breaking 10.7 million emergency in-patients between April 2014 and March 2015, a 574,000 increase on the previous year. In addition, there was also a significant increase in non-emergency patients.

MEPs approved measures to prevent proceeds from conflict minerals being used to fund armed conflicts and called on governments to break the deadlock on plans to harmonise maternity leave across Europe. They also debated measures to tackle irregular migrants coming to the EU during the plenary in Strasbourg on 18-21 May as well as green-lit tougher rules to prevent money laundering. Read on for an overview of the plenary.