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Athens accommodation site opens for new arrivals in Greece

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Five-year old Melina is staying with her mother, Marzia, at the new temporary accommodation site in Eleonas, Athens.

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At Security Council, UN relief chief cites ‘incomprehensible’ scale of human suffering in Yemen

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Under-Secretary-General for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O’Brien (centre) with local...

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World Humanitarian Day: UNHCR chief pays tribute to sacrifice of aid workers

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UNHCR staff member Paul Kenya registers refugees from Burundi as they board a bus to take them to the new Mahama refugee camp...

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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquity

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UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova

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