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The United Nations children's agency on Friday announced its decision to terminate its relationship with UNICEF's Hellenic National Committee after an audit prompted by reports from top-level economic officials at the local branch of irregularities in its finances.

The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has terminated its arrangement with the Hellenic National Committee, established in Greece as an independent non-government organization, "due to concerns arising out of a recent independent audit."

Europe must continue to maintain its leading position in space technology and innovation, increase its share of world markets and take advantage of the opportunities that space policy development provides.

In the revised World Economic Outlook report for April 2018, the IMF predicts the same growth rate for 2019, and inflation of 2.7 percent in 2018 and 3 percent in 2019.

The unemployment rate is projected to fall to 14 percent at the end of 2019, from 14.6 percent in 2017.

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The International Monetary Fund has undercut the official forecast for 2.5 percent growth this year, speaking of just 2 percent in its World Economic Outlook, curtailing the government's hopes for a swift recovery. It also slashed the official estimate for 2.5 percent in 2019 to just 1.8 percent.

Environmentalists gathered in protest at the National Palace of Culture before the start of the meeting of EU environmental ministers.

Their demands are to protect seas from pollution and overfishing.

The meeting of Ecology ministers in Sofia is informal and will take place today and tomorrow.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that countries need to rise to the challenge of climate change, quoted by Reuters. 

Guterres, speaking at the Chinese Boao Forum for Asia on Hainan island, said that while globalization had helped reduce poverty, vast numbers of people had been left behind and he wanted a fairer outcome.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will launch on April 10 a new two-year plan for Syrian refugees in Turkey, according to a top FAO official.

Joining the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is regarded, in the first place, as a modality to stimulate reforms in Romania, incorporated in the objective of increasing the welfare of citizens, Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melesdcanu said in Paris on Friday, on the occasion of the visit to the OECD seat, where he met the organisation Secretary General, A

Members of the Apostoli charity group of the Athens Archbishopric distributed food to homeless people and drug addicts on the streets of the capital through the night from Wednesday evening to Thursday morning, in the runup to Easter.