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A UNHCR camp in northern rural Aleppo for displaced people that fled the violence in Afrin, Syria. 26 July 2018.

European Union legislators took the unprecedented step Wednesday to begin process of imposing sanctions on Hungary for presenting a "systematic threat" to the bloc's Democratic values.

Hungary's rstrengthened razor wire border fence along an old railway line - blocking the route to refugees. 14 September 2015.

Afra, held by her mother Therese, is being checked for malnourishment at Al Sabbah Children's hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

Russia is preparing to hold its largest military drills in almost 40 years beginning Tuesday in eastern Siberia.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the five days of military exercises will include 300,000 soldiers, 36,000 military vehicles, 1,000 planes and 80 warships.

A genuine UNHCR protection officer collects information from disembarked refugees and migrants in Tripoli, Libya, in July 2018.

More than half a million children in conflict zones could die from extreme hunger before the end of the year, new research by Save the Children shows.

More than 100 migrants in two rubber boats died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya in early September, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 3 September 2018.