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May 2025
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UN News Today 23 May 2025

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Syria: Humanitarian crisis is looming over shattered countryUN rights chief Volker Türk in peace appeal to South Sudan’s warring sidesReal cost of disasters is 10 times higher than previously thought: UNDRR 
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