The filmmaker Oliver Englehart follows a local team working to clear mines from a residential area in Afghanistan, where buried explosives are a finite, but persistent problem
The Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, today paid tribute to the men and women of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) who contributed to Operation CATALYST (Iraq).
Speaking at the national parade to mark the end of the Operation, Air Chief Marshal Houston said Operation CATALYST was one of the most complex operations ever undertaken by the ADF.
Today, I encourage all Australians to pause for a moment to consider the service of their fellow countrymen. In our name and under our flag they risked their lives to provide others with a brighter future,Air Chief Marshal Houston said.
As your Chief, I am immensely proud of you and thankful for your skill and commitment. You have been wonderful ambassadors for our nation. As indeed, are the men and women still deployed in Iraq with the United Nations and those who are providing security for the Australian Embassy.
Of course, the success of Operation CATALYST is also due, not only to those who deployed to Iraq, but also to the performance of the defence organisation here at home.
I would also like to pay special tribute today to the families and friends of those who contributed to Operation CATALYST.
Without their love and encouragement, the men and women of the ADF would not have been able to perform as well as they did. For that I am most grateful.
Air Chief Marshal Houston said Operation CATALYST was a very dangerous mission and that we should never forget the human cost.
Very sadly, three Australians never came home from their military service in Iraq. Today I honour the service of Warrant Officer Class Two David Nary from the Special Air Service Regiment and Private Jacob Kovco of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, AirChief Marshal Houston said.
I also wish to mention Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel, a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, who was killed in Iraq whilst serving with the Royal Air Force.
To the Nary, Kovco and Pardoel families I want them to know that they are in our thoughts, just as David, Jake and Paul are in our thoughts.
Today we should also remember the 27 ADF men and women who were wounded during this operation. Some made full recoveries. Others will never fully recover.
To all our sailors, soldiers, airmen and airwomen who contributed to Operation CATALYST, I offer my sincere gratitude for your service.
Official histories
Since its inception, the Memorial has sponsored Australia’s official war histories. Australian governments have commissioned four separate series of official war histories over this period, one for each of the major conflicts in which Australia has been involved: the two world wars and the Cold War–conflicts in Korea and south-east Asia. In 2004 the Federal Government authorised the writing of a fifth official history relating to peacekeeping and Post–Cold War operations.
Official histories are “official” in the sense they are commissioned by government as the national record of Australia’s involvement in particular conflicts. The official historians are granted unrestricted access to closed period and security classified government records.
The Australian official war histories contain the authors’ own interpretations and judgements and do not follow any official or government line.
The works are the first published official record of Australia’s involvement in war. They are a detailed, chronological record of all services and theatres of conflict. They comprise an invaluable resource for researchers at all levels, from the scholar to the general reader. The official war histories are our enduring national record providing a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible account of the Australian experience of war.
Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2010, Earth Systems: change, sustainability, vulnerability
4–8 July 2010, Canberra, ACT
The Geological Society of Australia in conjunction with the Geological Society of America is calling on individuals, schools and community groups across Australia to visit their local graveyards—and measure the weathering rates of old marble headstones—as part of an international project to track shifts in world pollution levels climate change.
Australians urged to size up local graveyards in global project to track pollution and climate change
Walking around an old graveyard may seem more like the stuff of horror movies…but it could actually help save the planet.
That’s the message from the Geological Society of Australia, which is calling on individuals, schools and community groups across Australia to visit their local graveyards—and measure the weathering rates of old marble headstones—as part of an international project to track shifts in world pollution levels and climate change.
The global Gravestone Project—which gets underway this month and will continue until late 2011—is the first scientific research project being undertaken across the world as part of the international EarthTrek citizen science program. The Australian arm of the project is being launched today (Monday). Other projects being discussed with scientists for inclusion in EarthTrek in some countries include earthquake monitoring and measuring the size of hailstones.
The Geological Society of Australia, CSIRO Education and Earth Scientists from the University of Sydney are key Australian partners in EarthTrek, which is being led globally by the Geological Society of America. There is no cost for the public to participate in EarthTrek and participants receive rewards based on the number and scope of projects in which they are involved. Participants are guided in their work by local scientists.
In the Gravestone Project, participants will visit their local graveyard (importantly, only after obtaining any required permissions to do so), determine its location using a GPS and add this location to a global graveyard map on the EarthTrek website (http://GOEARTHTREK.COM). They will also note on the map whether the graveyard has (or does not have) white marble headstones.
Participants can then go a further step and select five white marble headstones that vary in age (including the oldest and youngest in the graveyard) and vary in the direction they face, record the dates of death shown on these headstones, and (while ensuring full respect and care is shown around the graves) measure the weathering rate of the headstones using micrometer callipers. Participants will log this and various other data about the gravestones on the EarthTrek website.
Rain contains more than just water—it also contains dust particles and acid from air pollution and chemicals.
Given the acid in rain chemically erodes marble gravestones (and the more acid the rain contains, the more it erodes the marble) the rate of weathering of marble gravestones can indicate changes in pollution or climate between locations and over time. In this way, the Gravestone Project can help assess whether some regions of the globe are experiencing higher pollution and more rapid climate change than others.
Two methods can be used to measure the weathering rate of marble gravestones. The Lead Lettering Method measures the erosion of a marble gravestone in comparison with the lead lettering used on it (as the lettering is not eroded by the acid in rain but the marble is). When marble gravestones are created, they are polished smooth so the lead letters and marble surface are flush. By measuring the distance that the lead lettering sits out from the eroded marble on weathered gravestones, and relating this to the date of death on the gravestone, scientists can determine by how much the gravestone has eroded over time.
While not as accurate as the Lead Lettering Method, the Thickness Method can be used for marble
gravestones that do not contain lead lettering. It assumes that when the headstone was made it was a
constant thickness from top to bottom—so by measuring any subsequent differences in the thickness of the headstone between its top and bottom, and relating this to the date of death on the headstone, scientists can determine the rate of weathering of the headstone caused by acidic rain over time.
President of the Geological Society of Australia, Professor Peter Cawood, said: “The terrific thing about EarthTrek is that it will engage the wider community in a whole range of exciting scientific research while also providing enormous people-power to greatly assist the scientists undertaking the research. EarthTrek projects across the globe will be focusing on critical research into key environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, the spread of noxious weeds and tracking endangered animals, just to name a few. By actively engaging the wider community in their work, scientists involved in EarthTrek can substantially increase the amount of data they collect for their research, dramatically raise the profile of their research in the broader community, and provide younger people with a first-hand opportunity to experience the wide range of fascinating work that a career as an Earth Scientist offers.”
Director Education & Outreach with the Geological Society of America, Gary Lewis, said: “EarthTrek
has already received a very positive community response around the globe with participants signing up from the USA, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Spain and Australia. It is terrific that so many people want to get involved in the project and help scientists with some fascinating research while also spending time outdoors using current technology and having fun. We have also had a great response to EarthTrek from scientists across the world, who can see the real benefits to their research that will stem from this project. We continue to encourage the support and partnership of even more scientific agencies and professional societies across the broad spectrum of science in making this program a powerful experience for both the scientists and the wider community.”
Associate Professor Deirdre Dragovich from the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, said: “It
is amazing to consider that, because marble headstones are freshly cut when they are placed in a cemetery, the weathering ‘clock’ is effectively set to zero. Gravestones are also very accurate indicators of pollution levels—in places where pollution has increased the weathering rates of marble headstones have increased too (and, conversely, weathering rates have decreased in places where pollution has decreased). The Gravestone Project provides a unique opportunity to gather important information about this weathering from different countries, climates and pollution environments—and it is also a great way for the wider community to contribute to cutting-edge research on pollution and climate change.”
Manager of CSIRO Education, Ross Kingsland, said: “EarthTrek is already proving to be great fun for the wider community while also providing an extremely useful framework for undertaking projects that directly support real scientific research. CSIRO Education has organised many Australian-based projects for family and school involvement and a number of future projects will be run in conjunction with EarthTrek.”
Air Vice-Marshal John Harvey is the Program Manager for the New Air Combat Capability Integrated Project Team – NACC IPT. The 2009 Defence White Paper endorsed a future combat fleet of ‘about 100’ Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft…
MEDIA : RAAF – Flying Females
VISION
The Royal Australian Air Force will be a balanced expeditionary, networked Air Force capable of achieving the Australian Government’s objectives through swift and decisive application of air and space power in joint operations or as a part of a larger coalition force.
We will be the most respected and v…alued Air Force in our region. We will be a model of how to build and sustain an effective, modern Air Force.
Our professionalism and combat effectiveness will deter potential adversaries from actions detrimental to Australia’s national interests.
Command and Control in the Royal Australian Air Force
The handbook enunciates the Chief of Air Force’s responsibilities to Government and the Chief of the Defence Force, and the processes used to discharge these responsibilities. It identifies CAF’s two principal executives, the Deputy Chief of Air Force (DCAF) and the Air Commander Australia (ACAUST), and the processes and support structures they use to command and control the Air Force on CAF’s behalf. In particular, the roles and responsibilities of ACAUST are detailed because of how the raise, train and sustain aspects of Air Force capabilities are managed so they are ready for operations, and also how ACAUST oversees the Air and Space Operations Centre (AOC), which is force assigned to Chief of Joint Operations (CJOPS).
This handbook also defines the terms command, control, leadership and governance, and describes the nature of C2 within the Air Force noting the key and enduring air power C2 tenet of centralised control and decentralised execution. As such, the terms and definitions for C2 used within this handbook are fully synchronised with ADDP 00.1—Command and Control.
Historical vignettes have been included to amplify key elements of Air Force’s C2 mechanism and to illustrate that the C2 framework has evolved over time, incorporating lessons learned from past operations and Air Force’s proud heritage. In this respect, attention is drawn to the historical vignette on RAAF C2 in World War II and the subsequent impact of having an ineffective C2 framework with unclear lines of responsibility.
Always There: A History of Air Force Combat Support
Combat support is the Air Force idiom for all of the support it needs to run an operational airbase. Always There traces the history of Air Force combat support from its origins in World War I through to the modern era.
The Air Force has always relied on its specialists on the ground to keep its aircraft and aircrew in the air, from communications and logistic specialists to cooks, health professionals, security and defence guards, clerks, commanders and many others.
During World War II they fought in every theatre from Europe to the Middle East (where they were largely forgotten), at the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin. They opened new airfields in New Guinea and moved to Japan with the occupation force. Later, they supported the war in the air over Korea and in Vietnam.
In the modern Air Force they form Combat Support Group. They have operated airfields in East Timor and the Solomon Islands during periods of unrest, repaired runways on Bougainville, helped evacuate the injured from Bali after the terrorist bombings and were among the first to respond to the devastation of Aceh following the Asian tsunami. They still support Australia’s air effort in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Always There tells a part of Air Force history that is more often forgotten than told, emphasizing the varying concepts and constructs through the years, highlighting some lessons that might endure and recounting how the modern Combat Support Group came about during major Defence reforms of the 1990s and its seemingly continual involvement on operations since.
Friends in High Places: Air Power in Irregular Warfare
Conventional military forces across the world are investigating and adopting measures to be effective in the increasing incidence of irregular wars in order to counter non-state adversaries perpetuating acts of violence in support of causes ranging from extremist political and religious ideologies, transnational crime, local insurgencies and guerrilla wars.
Air power is a critical element within the holistic military capabilities of a nation and forms an indelible part of the broader national security apparatus.
This book looks at the varied and critical contribution that air power makes towards the successful prosecution of irregular wars, from a military perspective. It also analyses the crucial role of air power in the strategic national security policy in relation to the current global trend of non-state entities to wage irregular wars against sovereign nations.
Climate change has long-since ceased to be a scientific curiosity, and is no longerjust one of many environmental and regulatory concerns. As the United Nations Secretary General has said, it is the major, overriding environmental issue of our time, and the single greatest challenge facing environmental regulators. It is a growing crisis with economic, health and safety, food production, security, and other dimensions.
Shifting weather patterns, for example, threaten food production through increased unpredictability of precipitation, rising sea levels contaminate coastal freshwater reserves and increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, and a warming atmosphere aids the pole-ward spread of pests and diseases once limited to the tropics.
The news to date is bad and getting worse. Ice-loss from glaciers and ice sheets has continued, leading, for example, to the second straight year with an ice-free passage through Canada’s Arctic islands, and accelerating rates of ice-loss from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Combined with thermal expansion—warm water occupies more volume than cold—the melting of ice sheets and glaciers around the world is contributing to rates and an ultimate extent of sea-level rise that could far outstrip those anticipated in the most recent global scientific assessment.
There is alarming evidence that important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system, may already have been reached or passed. Ecosystems as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra, for example, may be approaching thresholds of dramatic change through warming and drying. Mountain glaciers are in alarming retreat and the downstream effects of reduced water supply in the driest months will have repercussions that transcend generations. Climate feedback systems and environmental cumulative effects are building across Earth systems demonstrating behaviours we cannot anticipate.
The potential for runaway greenhouse warming is real and has never been more present. The most dangerous climate changes may still be avoided if we transform our hydrocarbon based energy systems and if we initiate rational and adequately financed adaptation programmes to forestall disasters and migrations at unprecedented scales. The tools are available, but they must be applied immediately and aggressively.
Scientists in the journal Science are now reporting that the contraction of Greenland’s ice sheet is accelerating. Using computer modeling to confirm their satellite data, the team concluded that the ice mass shrank by 273 billion tons a year (or as the Brits like to say…”nearly 300 Lake Windermeres”) during the warm summers from 2006 to 2008. That’s roughly a 70 percent increase over what had already been a pretty quick shrink of 166 billion tons a year since 2000.
The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest in the world, behind Antarctica, and could increase sea level by 7 meters in sea level were it to completely melt.
More than 273 gigatons of water is now pouring into the oceans annually, raising sea levels by nearly a millimetre every year, satellite imaging has shown.
Such is the change in the vast ice sheet that the loss of weight is actually changing its affect on the earth’s gravitational pull, the study in Science claims.
One gigaton could provide enough water for 17 million people in Britain and is the volume of Lake Windermere, the country’s biggest water mass.
The melting rate has been accelerating over the last decade and has more than tripled since the early 1990s.
While scientists cannot say that all the melting is caused by climate change, they believe this is “very, very compelling evidence” that man-made global warming is affecting the world’s ice sheets.
It could cause major coastal flooding could happen every five years – instead of every hundred.
About 1.2 billion people live in coastal areas around the world and they could be “devastated” by the rise in sea levels if the ice cap, which covers 1.71 million kilometres.
Professor Jonathan Bamber, the lead author at Bristol University, said: “When you put it into context how much ice is melting each year is very alarming. ”One gigaton is the same as a billion tonnes of water. Four of them could provide the domestic water supply for the whole of the UK.
“What is very worrying is that the speed of melting is increasing. Ice caps are like supertankers. Once they start moving in one direction is takes a lot to stop them.”
Professor Bamber used satellites to calculate the difference between the amount of inflowing ice – mainly from snowfall- compared the amount of outflowing ice – from surface melt and glacier rivers, to make the calculations.
He also looked at satellite data on the contribution the huge ice mass has on the earth’s gravitational pull.
He said both records had shown that the ice sheet had gone from roughly a state of equilibrium in the 1950s and gradually accelerated to its current rate of melting.
He said at the current rate seas would rise approximately half an inch a decade which could have devastating effects on lowland areas.
Professor Bamber also said that if the entire 2.5 million gigatons of the Greenland ice cap were to melt then global sea levels would rise by seven metres.
“Flooding that it is currently a once every hundred year even could happen every five years,” he said.
“This is very, very, strong and compelling evidence that the recent climate change is not normal and is influenced by man-made global warming.”
BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban
Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, “100 billion tons” of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be “ice-free”. This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to “floods affecting a quarter of the world”.
Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more.
Mr Ban seems equally unaware that, even if all that sea-ice were to melt, this would no more raise sea-levels than a cube of ice melting in a gin and tonic increases the volume of liquid in the glass. If he is relying for his “100 billion tons” on land ice melting in Antarctica and Greenland, he should note that much of their ice sheets are growing rather than shrinking. His “100 billion tons” is fantasy.
Similarly worthy of the Booker Prize for fiction was WWF’s claim that sea levels might rise by four feet (twice the most extreme guess by those UN computer models), let alone the ludicrous claim that this would flood “a quarter of the world”. But Mr Ban was indulging in this childish publicity stunt for the same reason the BBC, the Royal Society and others have lately been banging on about various mad schemes for “climate engineering”, such as putting up vast mirrors in space to keep out the sun’s rays or lining our motorways with artificial trees to suck deadly CO2 out of the air, to be taken away and buried in holes in the ground.
Why are they all going off their heads like this, in emulation of the “projector” that Gulliver met on his travels, in the Academy of Lagado, who had designed a scheme for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers? It is because they are desperately trying to whip up alarm over global warming before December’s planned “climate treaty” in Copenhagen, when all evidence suggests that they are not going to get the successor to the Kyoto Protocol they want.
The countries of the developing world, led by China, India, Russia and Brazil, continue to insist that, since global warming is all the fault of the already developed countries of the West, it is up to the West to cut its CO2 emissions by 80 per cent, while the rest of the world is allowed to catch up. Some, such as China, are prepared to make token emission cuts, but only so long as they are compensated by the West to the tune of trillions of pounds a year. As some of the gloomier warmists admit, Copenhagen looks to be a dead duck.
According to Government figures, however, we in Britain are already committed to spending, under the Climate Change Act, £18 billion every year between now and 2050 on this nonsense – daft light bulbs (see below), electricity blackouts and all. In other words, we are only beginning to see some of the nastier consequences of this crazy make-believe, based on nothing more substantial than the kind of gibberish we got last week from Mr “Light Bulb” Ban and the BBC.
World Climate News is published twice a year (January and June) in English and French editions.
This 12-page newsletter covers recent and ongoing climatic events and anomalies and their socio-economic impacts and reports of WMO’s activities in the fields of climate-related applications and research.
If not here then where, if not now then when, if not us then who?”
This was the question Yugratna, a 13 year-old girl from India, asked hundreds of world leaders at the UN’s Climate Change Summit last month. With nearly 3 billion young people making up our world’s population, I am particularly moved by this question, knowing that the worst effects of climate change mean so much more to someone her age.
Quite a few of you have told us about your concern for the future of younger generations, given all that global warming threatens to take away from them. Whether it’s that cool mountain stream where you fished with your grandfather or the clean drinking water that Himalayan glaciers provide to millions, we all worry that our kids and grandkids won’t enjoy the same experiences or resources we have.
Upcoming graduates are looking for jobs in renewable energy and sustainability;
Thousands of millennials are petitioning online to have a voice in Copenhagen;
A boy in Africa is teaching himself how to make an operational wind turbine;
And individually, youth are making “going green” a lifelong practice, not just a trend.
Youth-led movements such as the International Day of Climate Action clearly show us that this generation is not waiting for the answers – they are finding their own solutions – now.
The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. We are an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems.
We help the UN take its best work and ideas to scale—through advocacy, partnerships, constituency building and fund-raising.
Partnerships because we have learned what can be achieved when the public and private sectors work together through the United Nations;
Advocacy because we know the leverage and impact that sound policy can have on the kind of social, economic and environmental change the UN seeks;
Community-building because the UN was created for “we the people,” and all of us can give back and contribute to a better world; and
We need new and additional resources to power solutions to global challenges.
This is a very dark day for the UN in Afghanistan. I strongly condemn the attack this morning on a guest house here in Kabul, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility.
This brutal attack has cost the lives of at least five UN staff and injured at least nine others. I can of course not provide more details concerning nationalities or names at this stage. My profound condolences go to the families and friends of those who have been victims of this attack. However, this is a tragic loss to each and every member of the UN family in Afghanistan.
The UN has been in Afghanistan for more than half a century. We have been here to serve the Afghan people. Such attacks by any insurgency group are therefore not only an attack against the UN family but also against the Afghan people and those who need our help the most.
This attack will not deter the UN from continuing all its work to reconstruct a war-torn country and to build a better future for all Afghans. We will remain committed to the people of Afghanistan. We do of course review our security measures regularly in light of the prevailing security situation. We will in light of this morning’s tragedy look at whether other appropriate measures need to be taken to protect all our staff.
Secretary-General strongly condemns deadly bombing in Pakistani city
United Nations, New York, 28 October 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored todays bombing of a crowded marketplace in the Pakistani city of Peshawar that has killed more than 80 people and injured at least 160 others and is only the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting civilians across the country.
Read the Secretary-General’s opening remarks at the press conference:
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff….
New story:
http://www.un.org/
View the entire press conference (Real Media, 40 minutes):
http://webcast.un.org/
Expected Council Action On 27 October the Council is expected to hold consultations on the Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of resolution 1559 and receive a briefing from the Special Envoy for this issue, Terje Rød-Larsen. This resolution, adopted in 2004, urged the disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias and the extension of government control over all Lebanese territory.
At press time it seemed unlikely that the Council would take any formal action.
Key Recent Developments The tenth semi-annual 1559 report was released on 21 October. It focuses on the need for progress on disarmament and border issues. In addition it draws attention to:
the 7 June legislative elections and the ongoing negotiations to form a government;
positive developments in Syrian-Lebanese diplomatic relations; and
the challenge of Hezbollah and Palestinian militias to Lebanon’s sovereignty.
The report of the joint AU-UN panel set up by the Secretary-General to review modalities for supporting AU peacekeeping was submitted to the Council and General Assembly on 24 December 2008. The panel was chaired by former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. The report explored how the UN and AU could enhance the predictability, sustainability and flexibility of financing for UN mandated peace operations undertaken by the AU. The key recommendations of the AU-UN Panel’s report were:
UN and AU to take concrete steps to strengthen their mutual relationship and develop a more effective partnership when addressing issues on the joint agenda.
Use UN-assessed funding for AU-led and UN-authorised peacekeeping operations on a case-by-case basis, for no longer than six months, to be provided mainly in kind and only when there is an intention to transition to a UN peacekeeping operation within six months.
Establish a voluntary-based multi-donor trust fund to focus on comprehensive capacity-building for conflict prevention and resolution and institution building.
AU to consider developing its logistics capacity through innovative options.
Establish an AU-UN team to examine the detailed modalities to implement the report’s recommendations.
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President Bill Clinton speaks about the projects of the Clinton Climate Initiative that are slowing the threat of climate change worldwide. Watch to see what you can do to help in the global fight!
Every year, thousands of people try to reach North America via the Caribbean. UNHCR is providing vital pieces in the protection jigsaw that covers the region.
Weeks after a makeshift camp was dismantled in Calais, UNHCR continues to seek out and advise migrants and asylum-seekers along France’s northern coast.
The Toplica family waited a long time before deciding it was safe enough to return to their old neighbourhood in Kosovo. Now, they are back and thriving.
The UN refugee agency says it is extremely concerned about a recent escalation of the conflict in northern Yemen and its impact on the civilian population.
UNHCR starts distribution of tents to families displaced by military operations in Pakistan’s South Waziristan and living with hosts in Dera Ismail Khan district.
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