Afghan Opium Crop Cultivation Declines – UN Survey
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan decreased 19 per cent in 2015, compared to the previous year, according to the latest
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Middle East and Africa
Imagine Dragons and SAP to Assist Refugees
With hundreds of thousands of refugees in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, particularly across the Middle East and Europe, Imagine
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UN Chief Condemns Suicide Attacks in Chad
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has denounced the five simultaneous suicide attacks in Baga Sola sous-prefecture in Chad Sunday, which left scores
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Clinical Trial of Ebola Vaccine Regimen in Sierra Leone
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced Friday the start of a safety and immunogenicity clinical trial in Sierra Leone of
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Tunisian Quartet Gets Nobel Peace Prize for 2015
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the Tunisian
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Over 4,000 Attacks on Schools in Syria
More than half of all attacks on schools worldwide in the last four years have occurred in Syria, according to
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