YEREVAN, MAY 29, ARMENPRESS. Biden Administration proposes $24,005,000, from which Foreign Aid amounts to $23,405,000, and Military Aid - $600,000, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Armenian National Committee of America.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - What started as peaceful protests against President Bashar al Assad s rule in Syria has spiralled into a decade-old multi-sided conflict that has sucked in neighbours and world powers and caused the largest displacement crisis since World War Two. As Assad prepares for a fourth term in office, here is a summary of the human and financial cost of the conflict according to data from United Nations bodies, international NGOs and Syrian civil society groups. THE HUMAN TOLL: Death count and detainee estimates: The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), which has been documenting the war from outside Syria and briefs UN agencies, has documented 227,749 civilians who were killed from March 2011 until now. This figure includes only documented civilian deaths, while researchers estimate another 250,000 combatants from all sides have also been killed. The figures are broadly in line with estimates by rights groups and U.N-commissioned investigators. They say Syrian and Russia
By Djaffar Al Katanty GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday it was temporarily relocating around half its humanitarian staff from the eastern Congo city of Goma following a volcanic eruption that sent lava to the edge of town and triggered hundreds of earthquakes. More than 20,000 people are homeless and 40 still missing in the aftermath of Saturday evening s eruption, which unleashed rivers of lava flowing toward Goma, killing at least 31 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, the U.N. said. The lava from Mount Nyiragongo stopped just 300 metres short of Goma airport, the main hub for aid operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N. will temporarily relocate around 250 non-essential staff and about 1,500 of their dependents to the city of Bukavu, around 50 km (30 miles) south, said Diego Zorrilla, the U.N. s deputy humanitarian coordinator in Congo. If we thought there was going to be an imminent explosion in Goma I w