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Research into 12- to 17-year-olds adds to concerns that Covid has left them more vulnerable in their country

The number of women in Lebanon dying from pregnancy-related complications has nearly tripled amid a crushing three-year economic crisis that has seen doctors and midwives leave the country, the UN children's agency UNICEF said Wednesday. The crisis is also affecting children, especially among Syrian refugees who have fled over the…

"We just knew there was something magical happening and the children just worked really hard"

Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp are bidding for multiple major honours this season.

Agricultural workers in the east and Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in forty years, as authorities warn that higher temperatures and less than normal rainfall was recorded by weather agencies in March and April this year. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development said rains will likely…

The true total of the desperate plight of Ukraine’s youngsters was ‘almost certainly much higher’’, Unicef warned

‘They have been forced to leave everything behind’, Unicef representative says

On Monday, UNICEF revealed that over 140 children had been killed so far in the conflict

The U.N. children's agency says nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion

Ukrainians, some young and unaccompanied by family, are still fleeing their besieged country. But many are defying the invaders by returning home, or even refusing to leave in the first place.

Children are taught to tell the difference between toys like cars and stuffed bears from Russian explosives lying on the ground