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UN’s Grandi slams ‘toxic language of politics’ aimed at refugees, migrants

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Colombian customs post at Rumichaca, border of Ecuador with Colombia. The UN refugee chief...

Yemen: 11 more ‘terrible, senseless’ civilian deaths reported, following attack in Sana’a - top UN official

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Suad, aged 18, begs in the middle of the road between Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, and Saada with...

Urgently address ‘defining challenges of our time’, to empower youth worldwide, top UN official tells forum

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President of ECOSOC, Inga Rhonda King (centre), addresses the ECOSOC Youth Forum, 8 April 2019., by...

Maldives Holds Parliamentary Election

Voters in the Maldives are going to the polls for a parliamentary election.

The Saturday vote is a pivotal one for President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. A coalition rift has stymied Solih’s push to restore democratic freedoms that had been rolled...