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A change in law may be required for U.S. government agencies to be able to legally accept private donations for...

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African Nations Should Invest in Young People to Tackle Terrorism: UN Chief

by Imogen Francis

2019/07/10

The younger generation of Africans should be involved in the fight against ongoing terrorism in the region, the UN’s Secretary-General António...

Israel Seeks to Further Expand Settlements

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Israeli Settlers Take Over East Jerusalem Home After Decades-Long Court Battle

2019/07/10

Peace Now said in a statement "the settlement in Silwan not only harms the prospects for a conflict-ending agreement and...

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Europe’s Once Biggest Migrant Center Shut Down in Italy

2019/07/09

What was once Europe's biggest migrant reception center, in Mineo in Sicily, officially closed on Tuesday in the presence of...

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French Envoy Visits Iran to Try to Salvage Nuclear Deal

2019/07/09

The accord between Tehran and world powers promised sanctions relief, economic benefits and an end to international isolation of the...

Protester holding up the flag from Venezuela

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Latin American Countries Develop Plan to Integrate Venezuelan Migrants

by Imogen Francis

To help integrate the millions of refugees leaving Venezuela, 14 Latin American and Carribean countries adopted a new plan to...

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Dozens of Trafficked Rohingya Muslims Found Stranded in Myanmar

Myanmar's army drove 740,000 of the stateless minority into Bangladesh in a bloody crackdown in 2017. UN investigators have called...

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Pope Francis: Migrants Are a Symbol of Those Rejected by Globalization

"They are persons, these are not mere social or migrant issues!" the pope said.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and the army.

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Amnesty Urges UN Probe of ‘Systematic’ Philippine Drug War Killings

Amnesty said the press has lost interest, which has had the "effect of creating a climate of total impunity in...

Migrants heading toward the United States

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Mexican Authorities Rescue 24 Kidnapped Migrants

2019/07/06

Mexican authorities on Friday rescued 24 Central American migrants, who had been held hostage for nearly three weeks in the...

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Migrant Rescue Boat Captain to Sue Italy’s Salvini for Defamation

Italian police last week arrested Rackete, 31, after she defied orders to stay away and forced her way into port...

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DR Congo Ebola Death Toll Exceeds 1,600 Mark

The current epidemic is the worst on record after more than 11,300 were killed Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in...

A Syrian refugee holds a baby in a refugee camp set in the town of Harmanli, south-east of Sofia

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HRW Condemns ‘Pressure’ on Syrian Refugees to Leave Lebanon

Human Rights Watch on Friday condemned Lebanon's order for Syrian refugees to demolish their hard shelters as tantamount to "illegitimate...

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Rule of Law in Venezuela ‘Eroded’: UN Rights Chief

The U.N. rights chief also said the U.S. oil embargo and other sanctions imposed on Venezuela were taking a harsh...

Protestors in Sudan wave a flag while sitting on top of a car

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Sudan Protesters Hail Landmark Deal With Generals

Crowds of jubilant Sudanese took to the streets of Khartoum to celebrate a landmark deal between protest leaders and the...

A Libyan coast guardsman stands on a boat Tuesday during the rescue of 147 migrants attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Zawiyah, 28 miles west of the capital, Tripoli.

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Migrants Face ‘Massacre’ at Libya Detention Center

2019/07/03

The U.N. refugee agency's pleas to move those held in detention centers away from the fighting fell of deaf ears.

Russia's President Putin and US President Trump

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Putin Formally Suspends Major Nuclear Treaty With US

2019/07/03

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed into law a bill on the suspension of a crucial arms control treaty...

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Nine in Ten Palestinians Distrust US Economic Plan: Poll

2019/07/03

Both the Palestinian Authority and its rival Hamas have lambasted the U.S. economic plan as an attempt to buy them...

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French Mayor Convicted for Harassing Migrant Helpers

2019/07/02

Rights group Amnesty International last month accused French authorities of harassing, intimidating and even attacking migrant helpers in northern France...

Sudanese protesters rally outside the army complex in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on April 18, 2019

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Sudan Protesters Ready to ‘Pay Price of Change’ as Military Attempts Provocations

by Imogen Francis

2019/07/02