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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.

More than 100 journalists and media professionals from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the region gathered to discuss media and terrorism at a conference organized by the OSCE Mission to BiH, which concluded in Jahorina, on September 2.

The humanitarian crisis in the Africa's Lake Chad basin, affecting parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, continues to worsen due to prolonged violence, insecurity and environmental degradation. To help the most vulnerable communities, the Commission has announced new funding of €138 million combining humanitarian and development assistance, on September 3. This is part of an overall EU aid package for the region worth €232 million.

Tens of thousands of people attended an anti-racism concert Monday in the German city of Chemnitz to protest growing anti-migrant sentiment.

UK aid will protect thousands of vulnerable men, women and children in Nigeria from modern slavery and unsafe migration through innovative prevention work such as public information campaigns, awareness raising at schools and universities, and new research.

The Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) for Somalia, Peter de Clercq, urged on September 2, the international community to sustain assistance to people affected by conflict, 2017 drought as well as this year’s devastating floods and cyclone.

Yemen's government says it is giving civil servants and pensioners pay raises, after protests against the country's woeful economy nearly paralyzed a major port city Sunday.

A Palestine refugee woman receives food assistance at the UNRWA Khan Younis Distribution Centre in Gaza.

Refugees and migrants sleep on the floor at Tariq al-Sikka detention facility in Tripoli, Libya, in May 2017.

A human rights group says the Myanmar government may have committed a war crime by allegedly blocking deliveries of life-saving aid supplies to civilians in war-torn northern Myanmar.