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Thousands suffering amid harrowing conditions in east Ghouta and Afrin – UN

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On 15 March 2018 in Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta. families walk towards Hamourieh where an...

UN spotlights rainwater recycling, artificial wetlands among ‘green’ solutions to global water crisis

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The Laghman River, one of Afghanistan’s many waterways, is essential to agriculture and other...

UNICEF and partners continue to support children in the Caribbean, six months after Hurricanes Irma and María

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On 11 September 2017, Jaequon Brooks, 10, and Nequan sit outdoors on part of a...

Self-Driving Car Hits and Kills Pedestrian Outside of Phoenix

A self-driving car has hit and killed a woman in the southwestern United States in what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the new technology.