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A view of Semipalatinsk Test Site's ground zero in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Remote Semipalatinsk was once the Soviet Union's primary testing venue for nuclear weapons.

The number of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children, staying in dangerous and overcrowded Reception and Identification Centres on the Greek islands, and detention facilities across the country, now exceeds 1,100 – the largest number since the beginning of 2016 – UNICEF said on August 29, 2019. The agency urged European Member States to do more to protect these particularly vulnerable children.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says if the United States wants to engage in negotiations, it must observe the 2015 agreement that limited Iran's nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief.

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, sailed into New York Harbor flanked by a fleet of 17 sailboats representing each of the Sustainable Development Goals on their sails.

The Nigerien army patrols the Sahara desert targetting militant groups including ISIL and Boko Haram.

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, lays a wreath in Christchurch memory of the victims of a mass shooting in the New Zealand city in March 2019.

Hong Kong is gearing up for more protests as some demonstrators made plans to again to target the airport this weekend.

Hong Kong police said Friday that the city’s high court had extended an order restricting protests at the airport.

Malta has agreed to allow a charity ship carrying 356 migrants, including more than 100 minors, mainly from Sudan, to dock.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured Canada on Thursday that the United States was working to get China to release two Canadians it detained last year on espionage charges in cases linked to a U.S. criminal charge against a Chinese technology executive.