In its annual appeal, which saw a 17 percent increase in annual funding required, the United Nations said famine remained a "terrifying prospect" of threatening 45 million people in 43 countries as adverse weather conditions caused by climate change reduced food supplies.

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The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, called on the parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia to display a spirit of humanity as fighting rages there, compounding the suffering of the families that have been at war for almost a year.

Following an official ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the murder of Algerian demonstrators on 17 October 1961 in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned this to "unjustified crimes for the Republic."

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Today, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the resolution submitted to the International Human Rights Council by the International Fact - Finding Mission in Libya contains no evidence of crimes committed by Russian citizens in Libya.