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UNHCR's protection chief completes visit to Myanmar with call for more support to Rakhine state

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Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk speaks with an elderly woman in a Rohingya village near Maungdaw,...

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Breaking the fast away from home brings back memories

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A family from Mosul breaks the Ramadan fast at an iftar dinner in their tent at the Baharka IDP camp in Erbil, Iraq.

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MEPs want a binding and permanent scheme to distribute asylum seekers in the EU

A binding emergency mechanism to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states was backed by civil liberties MEPs on Thursday. An upcoming permanent scheme, on which Parliament will decide jointly...

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ADDIS: UN officials hail outcome of conference on development financing as first milestone of 2015

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Through a national school feeding program in Oudomxay province, Lao PDR, students get at least...

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