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Foul Weather Slows Search for Missing Argentine Sub With 44 Aboard

An international fleet of ships and planes is fighting eight-meter high waves and 74 kilometer per hour winds searching for the ARA San Juan, a missing Argentine submarine with a crew of 44.

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Despite progress, 180 million children face bleaker prospects than their parents – UNICEF

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Young friends at Bangui’s Mpoko airport site for displaced people, Central African Republic, November 2015

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Government of Japan Donates US$15 Million to WFP Response to Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$15 million emergency contribution from the Government of Japan to support WFP’s response to the refugee crisis in Bangladesh.

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UN agencies rush in medical supplies for thousands wounded in Iran-Iraq earthquake

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Families in Kani Bardina village, Sulaymaniyah governorate, receive health check-ups and assistance...

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