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On September 4, the Council adopted its position on the 2019 EU budget, confirming the agreement reached by EU ambassadors in July.

The Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), United Nations agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations providing humanitarian response in the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed a protocol for information sharing and reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse allegations.

Israel announced on Wednesday it would close its embassy in Paraguay and recall its ambassador after the South American country said it would move its embassy from the official Israeli capital of Jerusalem to the nearby city of Tel Aviv.

Vietnam has been consistently one of the source countries for trafficking into the UK for the past five years. Only last year 739 Vietnamese people were referred to the UK authorities as potential victims of trafficking, including 363 children. Most of Vietnamese children and young people are exploited by ruthless criminal gangs in cannabis farms, in nail bars and in brothels.

Half of students aged 13 to 15 worldwide – around 150 million – report having experienced peer-to-peer violence in and around school, according to a new report released by UNICEF on Sep 06, 2018.

The independent report produced by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), on September 4, has confirmed the assessment of the United Kingdom in identifying the chemical agent responsible for the death of Dawn Sturgess in Amesbury on 8 July.

European Parliament Vice-President Ramón Luis Valcárcel, on behalf of President Antonio Tajani, opened the 2018 EU Ambassadors Conference, bringing together the 140 EU ambassadors from all over the world.

The High-Level Conference on the Lake Chad Region concluded with renewed commitments by participants to work together to address the multi-faceted crisis affecting the region, on September 4.

The first migrants from the Aquarius ship arrive at the port of Valencia on an Italian ship, the Dattilo, June 2018.

As firefighters sifted through the burned-out remains of Rio de Janeiro's National Museum for hot embers Monday, Brazilians struggled with the loss of a vast collection of irreplaceable items from the country's history.