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UNICEF seeks $3.6 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in catastrophic humanitarian crises

10-month-old Atica, a Rohingya refugee, sips water from a mug held by her sister, 11-year-old Musaddeka, after...

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Trump Issues Order to Keep Guantanamo Open

A new executive order, issued as U.S. President Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address, cancels a 2009 order in which President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.

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UNHCR and partners seeks US$157 million to aid Boko Haram displaced

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with humanitarian partners, on Januray 31, launched an inter-agency funding appeal for US$157 million to help over a quarter of a million people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin region...

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Federal Judge Says He Cannot Ignore Trump's 'Vicious' Anti-immigrant Comments

A federal judge hearing a challenge to President Donald Trump's order to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation says he cannot ignore Trump's "drumbeat" of "vicious" anti-immigrant comments.

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