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Donor Support Underpins WFP’s Assistance To Malian Refugees In Mauritania

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes contributions from Canada, the European Union (ECHO), Germany, Japan, Spain and the United States Food for Peace (USAID/FFP), which have sustained assistance to refugees in Mauritania in 2017. The...

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Children under attack at shocking scale in conflicts around the world, says UNICEF

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Drawings made by young Rohingya refugee children shortly after arriving from Myanmar in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar,...

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Obama Misses 'Fascinating' Work of Presidency, Warns of 'Different Realities' Online

U.S. President Barack Obama told Britain's Prince Harry one danger of the internet is "that people can have entirely different realities" and surround themselves in information that "reinforces their current biases."

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OSCE Chair-in-Office Kneissl and Secretary General Greminger welcome exchange of detainees in eastern Ukraine, call for full adherence to ceasefire

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger welcomed the news of the large-scale exchange of prisoners and detainees in eastern Ukraine and urged the sides to build on this...

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