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750,000 children at risk of being cut off from safe drinking water after increased shelling in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

On 1 February 2017, following intense fighting in Avdiivka, Dasha, 1.5 year old, is held by her mother outside a...

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Severe funding gaps threaten assistance to 9 million children in Syria and neighbouring countries

On 3 June 2017 in the makeshift camp at Ain Issa, 50 km north of the Raqqa in the Syrian Arab...

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‘I Can’t Believe He Did This,’ Wife of DC Gunman Says

The wife of the man who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others at a baseball field outside Washington Wednesday said she saw no signs that her husband was planning any violence when he told her he was traveling to the nation’...

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WFP Ends Emergency Operation That Helped Many Cope With Severe Drought In Swaziland

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has phased out its emergency operation in Swaziland, after helping up to 230,000 people through drought over the past year. The close of the operation – carried out in support of the Government’s national...

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