World News in Brief: Water crisis for children, hunger in East Africa, new Yazidi memorial

Some 739 million worldwide – or one in three - already live in areas exposed to high or very high water scarcity, with climate change threatening to push that alarming figure higher, according to a new UNICEF report.

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World News in Brief: Water crisis for children, hunger in East Africa, new Yazidi memorial
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