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This is a summary of what was said by Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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Netanyahu admits Israel behind pager attack in Lebanon
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged for the first time he green-lighted an operation in September where thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon and Syria.
Surrounded on three sides, Kurakhove is Ukraine's new 'Bakhmut'
Yet between 700 and 1,000 local residents remain, most of them living in the basements of apartment buildings, without running water, heating or electricity. The only place to charge phones is in the basement of the building now housing the city administration.
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and Lebanon kill dozens of people
Dr. Fadel Naim, director of the Al-Ahly Hospital in Gaza City which received the dead bodies, said the dead include nine women, and that the toll was likely to rise as rescue efforts continue.
Israeli strikes kill at least 13 in Gaza, including women and children
The strikes came as Israel announced the first delivery of aid in weeks to the war-battered northern Gaza.
35 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, echoes of east-west division linger
35 years ago the Berlin wall fell, reuniting Germans who were divided between east and west for nearly three decades.
Lack of language support prevents Ukrainian doctors from practising in Portugal
A lack of support for learning Portuguese has prevented around 50 Ukrainian doctors, most of whom are women, from integrating into the Portuguese healthcare system.
It was a senseless murder... he was lying in wait
Just weeks before Caroline Gore was brutally murdered, her abusive partner who stabbed her to death was allowed to walk free.