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Al-Qaida Affiliate Claims Responsibility for Mali Attack

Terrorist group al-Qaida's affiliate in Mali claimed responsibility Monday for an attack that left four civilians dead a day earlier, according to U.S.-based intelligence group SITE.

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UNHCR calls on Austria EU Presidency to lead and unite EU countries towards a fair and functioning asylum system

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Shokat Ali Walizadeh (left), an ethnic Hazara who fled from Afghanistan to Austria in 2008, helps two Afghan boys who...

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Thai Youth Soccer Team Found Alive, Hungry After 9 Days in Cave

Twelve teenage soccer players and their adult coach have been found alive in a cave in Thailand nine days after they went missing.

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Ben Stiller appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller speaks with a woman who has recently arrived at a transit shelter supported by UNHCR...

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