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UN agencies ‘surging’ staff, funds to meet urgent humanitarian needs in Iraq

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WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin meeting with some families who fled the violence in Mosul.

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Three international experts tapped to assist with UN-mandated Sri Lanka conflict probe

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Former Finnish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, former...

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Gabriele Zimmer re-elected as GUE/NGL group chair

Gabriele Zimmer, a German member of Die Linke party, has been re-elected as the chair of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament. She already held the office in the previous legislative term from March 2012...

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Kerry Urges Iraqi Kurds to Band With Baghdad

Secretary of State John Kerry met Tuesday with Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani in a bid to convince him to close ranks with the government in Baghdad to fend off an insurgency by Sunni militants.

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