calling for

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Hadja Lahbib, the EU commissioner for crisis management, visited the provincial capital, Bunia, calling for humanitarian and health workers in the region to be guaranteed access to people in need.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Zelensky sent an open letter calling for a direct negotiations, writing that it would be "wrong to simply wait" for the conflict to once again become the focus of US attention.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Again, I’m not a puritan calling for prohibition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The authors are calling for a coordinated One Health strategy that brings together human health, environmental science, and water management.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

Oo-err, he said, like an infant calling for its mother.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer