Famine Declared in Two South Sudan Counties Amid Civil War
UN and national officials announced a famine in two Unity state counties with 100000 people at risk and 1 million more on the brink. They cited war disruption, blocked aid convoys, and rising hunger as 5.5 million face severe shortages by summer.
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World Food Program
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Serge Tissot
FAO
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U.S
Salva Kiir
Riek Machar
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Machar
Nuer
Tissot
Unity
Death of Russia's U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin in New York
Vitaly Churkin Russia's U.N. envoy died suddenly in New York at 64 after reportedly falling ill at work. A US official cited an apparent heart attack as the cause, with Kremlin and Putin expressions of distress and notes on his hardline stance over Syria and Aleppo.
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Border agencies bolster presence at Quebec crossing
Canadian authorities expanded border staffing and opened a temporary refugee center as asylum claims at Quebec U.S. crossings surged. The Canada Border Services Agency reported more than a twofold rise in claims from 2015 to 2016, with 2,?00 claims in February 2016 versus 1,387 in January 2016, as arrivals stretch resources from Manitoba to Quebec.
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Poland Holocaust letters gifted to museum
Twenty seven urine coded letters by Polish women in Ravensbrueck report on Nazi medical experiments. Donated to Lublin’s Martyr Museum by Krystyna Czyz Wilgat family, they reveal the 74 women subjected to tests while passing censorship.
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Ravensbrueck
Krystyna Czyz-Wilgat
Clock” Martyr
Barbara Oratowska
Lublin Museum
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