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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is troubled by the U.S. decision, announced on November 2, to reduce, substantially and for the third consecutive year, the number of refugees it will admit for resettlement in the United States over the coming year.

More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. In the latest departure, a boat carrying 114 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden on Monday and arrived at the Port of Berbera in Somalia on October 29.

At the Qanfoodah Detention Centre in Benghazi, Libya, male Afrian detainees wait to be declared present at a morning roll call.

“I was just in South Asia where I saw first-hand how children continue to suffer from the dire consequences of air pollution.

A child sits at her desk at a UNICEF-supported government primary school, in Douala, Cameroon.

Trash at a beach in Bali where the UN Environment Programme launched the Clean Seas Campaign.

“The latest escalation in northeast Syria brings a renewed urgency for governments to repatriate foreign children stranded in the area before it is too late. National governments have the responsibility and opportunity now to do the right thing and bring these children and their parents home where they can receive adequate care and be safe from violence and abuse.

Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the press after addressing the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.

Hong Kong Police fired tear gas Thursday on masked pro-democracy protesters and Halloween revelers in the territory's nightlife district.

An eleven-member delegation of the World Bank Group Executive Directors (EDs) visited Nepal from October 29 to November 2, to gain a comprehensive perspective of Nepal’s current development status and future opportunities. The visit marked the 50th year of World Bank Group-Nepal engagement, with the first World Bank credit in Nepal approved by the Board on November 4, 1969. The trip was part of a larger visit to the South Asia Region that will also include stops in Bangladesh and Maldives.