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The European Union's head of diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announces an additional €500 million in military aid to Ukraine at the G7 meeting of foreign ministers in Germany. SOUNDBITE of Josep Borrell
Russia's war on Ukraine has displaced "over seven million people," EU commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarcic says at a press conference in Brussels after a meeting of EU interior ministers focused on the refugee flow out of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
The United States tells the UN General Assembly that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could displace as many as five million people. "If Russia continues down this path, it could -- according to our estimates -- create a new refugee crisis, one of the largest facing the world today," said America's ambassador to the world body, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. SOUNDBITE
World Tuberculosis Day is held on March 24 to spread awareness about a disease that, according to the World Health Organization, kills 1.5 million people globally every year and infected 9 million people in 2013.
The World Food Programme's (WFP) Assistant Executive Director, Valerie Guarnieri, speaking from Rome during a UN briefing says that "27 million people have been affected by the El Nino-induced drought" in South Africa adding that almost four million children are suffering from "acute malnutrition". SOUNDBITE
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