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Save the Children-Supported Schools Bombed amid Escalating Violence as 50,000 Displaced in Southern Syria

A Save the Children-supported education facility reaching 536 students in Dara’a, Syria was badly damaged in the last week after being hit in an airstrike, just hours after classes had to be suspended for security reasons amid escalating violence. In...

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European solidarity on Energy: Synchronisation of the Baltic States' electricity network with the European system strengthens security of supply

The President of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker together with the Heads of State or Government of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, on June 28, agreed on the Political Roadmap for synchronising the Baltic States' electricity grid with the...

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UN: 10,000 Children Killed, Maimed in Conflicts Worldwide in 2017

More than 10,000 children were killed or maimed last year in armed conflicts around the world, a U.N. report said this week.

More than 21,000 "grave violations" of children's rights were reported in 2017, a sharp increase from the year before,...

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South East Europe must focus on common goals and continue reform, say OSCE PA leaders at London seminar

To achieve their goals and objectives, the countries of South East Europe must focus on their common interests, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (Georgia) said at a meeting of the European Leadership Network at the House of Lords...

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