The Iranian authorities' admission that they mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet has sparked anti-government protests in Tehran, with US President Donald Trump tweeting his support.

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This film reveals the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai, following the daily struggles of four young children to survive. Want...

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Facing the throwaway comment that “you can’t be black and queer”, Suriya Aisha, creator of social support network UNMUTED, saw nobody visibly living in the i...

"Politics" is the smart person word for "yelling about the government."
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The Extractive Industries Knowledge Hub, established in 2010 by the Natural Resource Governance Institute and Azerbaijan-based Khazar University, aims to hel...

A brief look at disaster risk reduction (DRR) from our Regional Office in the Arab States (http://www.unisdr.org/arabstates)