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Almost 150,000 Rohingya Children in Urgent Need of Supplementary Food to Stave off or Treat Malnutrition

Save the Children is warning of a malnutrition crisis in the Bangladeshi district of Cox's Bazar, where more than half a million Rohingya have arrived in the past six weeks after fleeing horrific violence and bloodshed over the border in Myanmar.

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Reduce overcrowding in prisons to prevent radicalisation, urge MEPs

MEPs fear that overcrowding in EU prisons may fuel radicalisation. They urge national authorities to opt for alternatives to imprisonment whenever possible.

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Statement by Panos Moumtzis, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis on the recent escalation of violence in Syria

I am appalled by reports of high numbers of civilian casualties due to heavy air attacks in Syria. Hospitals, ambulances, schools and displaced people escaping violence have been targeted by direct air strikes resulting in deaths and injuries of...

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Syria: "September was the deadliest month of 2017 for civilians" - Regional Humanitarian Coordinator

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