One in 10 Ukrainians is a refugee, half are children, U.N. agencies say
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past five weeks, and half of them are children, said two U.N. agencies.
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More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past five weeks, and half of them are children, said two U.N. agencies.
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For months, the United Nations has warned of famine in Tigray, an embattled corner of northern Ethiopia, calling it the world’s worst hunger crisis in a decade.
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Barring any obstacles caused by the global pandemic, Pope Francis is set to begin international travel again in 2021 by visiting Iraq in March, which would make him the first pope to visit this nation.
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Viewing the burned wasteland of the Beirut port, one’s eye catches a grey concrete slab in the foreground. It bears this stark message scribbled by the Lebanese in black ink: “My Government Did This.”
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Humanitarians caring for displaced Syrians in and outside their country are calling for an end to Syria’s brutal civil war as it enters its 10th year. The magnitude of displacement, death and destruction in Syria marks one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises right now, the United Nations and human rights groups have said.
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