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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on July 9 to extend the delivery of humanitarian aid from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria for a year after a U.S.-Russia deal, a move the U.N. says will provide lifesaving aid to 3.4 million people are in desperate need of food and other assistance.

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