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According to media and police reports, the men were shot several times by two assailants on motorcycles as they chatted in front of a convenience store in the Quezon City neighborhood.

The independent United Nations body tasked with monitoring the production and consumption of narcotics worldwide urged Uruguay to review a draft law that would permit the sale of cannabis for non-medical use.

The continued failure by parties to the conflict to protect civilians across Syria means that women, men, and children continue to be killed, injured and displaced across the country.

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom called for an investigation into the death of Colombian radio journalist gunned down on his way to work.

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani speaks to the media following in Tehran on June 16, 2013.

A changing humanitarian world is reshaping aid workers’ roles.

The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) is calling for justice four years to the day since a horrific attack on the Christian town of Gojra in Pakistan.

A displaced woman who fled fighting between FARDC and M23 rebels, at a camp in Kanyaruchinya, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, (DRC).

Violence against children is all too often unseen, unheard and underreported, said UNICEF, announcing an initiative that urges ordinary citizens, lawmakers and governments to speak out more forcefully to fight violence against children.

Many of the at least 74 pro-Morsy protesters killed in clashes with Egypt’s riot police and plain clothed men who stood alongside were shot in the head or chest. They were killed on July 27 over a period of several hours during clashes on a road near the Muslim Brotherhood’s sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya in eastern Cairo.