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Migrants sit on mattresses laid on the floor at a detention centre, located on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday 1 February 2017.

A further escalation of fighting in Idlib, northwestern Syria, will put the lives of more than 1 million children at imminent risk, UNICEF said on Sep 07, 2018.

Ruins of Nagasaki about 800 metres from the hypocenter in mid-October 1945.

An inter-agency humanitarian convoy has reached Baggari region in South Sudan for the first time since it was cut off in June because of renewed fighting.

Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has been stabbed during a campaign rally in Minas Gerais Thursday.

The International Criminal Court ruled Thursday it has jurisdiction to investigate the alleged forced mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.

Law enforcement officers in Mexico have found 166 human skulls in burial pits in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Veracruz state prosecutor Jorge Winckler said the bodies had been in the mass graves, one of the biggest found in Mexico, for at least two years.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian children who have already been forced to flee their homes once are once again at risk amid reports that preparations are being made for an offensive on Idlib province.

Recently arrived South Sudanese refugees wait to be registered at Kuluba collection point iin Northern Uganda, May 2017.

International calls for restraint grew Wednesday for Syria and its allies, Russia and Iran, to avoid a bloodbath and humanitarian disaster in Syria's Idlib province.