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Bay of Bengal 'three times more deadly' than Mediterranean for migrants and refugees – UN

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Fishing boats head out into the Bay of Bengal. UNHCR fears thousands could be stranded on smugglers’...

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Syria ‘reduced to ruins,’ with civilians paying the biggest price, says UN human rights panel

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In the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, people are waiting desperately to be allowed out because of lack...

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Children left injured and homeless after violence in Malakal, South Sudan

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Internally displaced people from Malakal UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site gather on the outskirts of the UN base with their...

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Firearms: internal market MEPs to debate draft rules on gun control in the EU

MEPs will give their views on how best to prevent weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and keep track of cross-border arms transfers in the Internal Market Committee’s kick-off debate on the revision of the EU firearms directive on Tuesday at...

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