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Conflict and drought deepen food insecurity in Africa, Middle East – UN agency

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Community members transport humanitarian supplies delivered in Mayendit town, South...

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UN agencies explore nuclear applications to combat food fraud and contamination

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A researcher tests tomatoes at the IAEA’s Food and Environmental Laboratory in...

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More than 40,000 children in the line of fire in Ar-Raqqa, Syria, as fighting intensifies

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On 18 May 2017 in Al-Tabqa city in the Syrian Arab Republic, Hasan, 12 (red shirt) and his friends walk past a destroyed car. He...

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Number of suspected cholera cases reaches 100,000 in Yemen

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On 12 May 2017 at the Sab'een Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen, children suffering from severe diarrhoea...

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