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Boeing admitted Thursday that a faulty sensor in its anti-stall system played a part in last month's deadly Ethiopian plane crash.

Ethiopian investigators released their preliminary report into the disaster that killed 157 people, saying the anti-stall system kept pushing the nose of the plane downward shortly after takeoff as the pilots struggled to take control.

Does your business source cotton products from Turkey? Or maybe you have been buying clothes with ‘Made in Turkey’ tag? I have bad news for you: you may be inadvertently supporting a massive scale system of forced labour.

In a situation of human mobility, hundreds of Venezuelans wait in line at the Rumichaca border of Ecuador with Colombia to seal their passport and continue their journeys.

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and UNICEF signed a communique to announce their intent to develop a Global Muslim Philanthropy Fund for Children on April 03, 2019.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Egypt’s FM Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, as part of his two-day visit to Egypt.

On 21 March 2019 in Mozambique, Helcio Filipe Antonio holds a boy named Anderson Tackdi the Samora Michel High School in Beira. The Samora Michelle High School is one of the places used as a living space for people from Buzi, Mozambique that has been displaced by the floods caused by Cyclone Idai.

With the rights and lives of millions of women, children and men uprooted by conflict every year, the UN Security Council held a special meeting on Monday to examine ways to promote and strengthen the rule of law, especially in the humanitarian field.

The polls have opened and voters in Ukraine are casting their ballots Sunday in the first round of the country's presidential election.

The Trump administration wants to halt funding to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, the State Department confirmed Saturday.

“We are carrying out the president’s direction and ending [fiscal year] 2017 and [fiscal year] 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. “We will be engaging Congress as part of this process.”

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta receives the UN Security Council delegation at Palais de Koulouba in Bamako. March 2019.