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UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor visits refugee and displaced children on Iraq frontline

UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor travelled to northern Iraq last week to see how the conflicts sweeping across Iraq and Syria are devastating children’s lives. Tens of thousands of children have been killed, injured, separated from their parents,...

Yemen: Focusing on local suppliers, UN agency reaches thousands more in need of food aid

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WFP provides food vouchers to 55,000 people in hard-to-reach district of Taiz city, Al Qahira, Yemen.

On Friendship Day, Ban says lives can be enriched, future enhanced through unity and camaraderie

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Young Children at the ELCRN hostel in Otjimbingwe, Namibia.

Weather app reaches half a million downloads

With changeable weather as the school holidays get into full swing UK Met Office weather app comes into its own.