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On World Humanitarian Day, citizens across the globe come together to rally support for people living in countries at war and to pay tribute to the first responders and aid workers who help them.

Iran's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs are at "the top of the list," U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said Sunday after arriving in Israel, where he plans to holds talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

World Humanitarian Day 2018 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, in which 22 UN staff and other civilians lost their lives. Each year on 19 August, the humanitarian community remembers aid workers who lost their lives in the line of duty and pays tribute to those who deliver aid to vulnerable communities in some of the world's most dangerous crises.

ChildFund, Futures Without Violence, Save the Children and World Vision applaud the introduction of S.Res. 606 by Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, calling on Congress to recognize the harmful impact that violence has on the healthy development of children and youth.

A girl, carrying jerrycans of water, walks past a pile of debris, on a street in Aleppo, Syria.

Amnesty International is demanding Vietnam immediately and unconditionally free environmental activist Le Dinh Luong, who is scheduled to go on trial Thursday.

The Aquarius ship arrives in Malta.

The U.S. on Wednesday sanctioned companies in China, Russia and Singapore it says were violating the trade embargo with North Korea, Washington's latest effort to keep pressure on Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons development.

The Central African Republic Humanitarian Fund of the (CAR HF) is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Established on 31 July 2008, this multi-donor humanitarian funding instrument managed by OCHA CAR, under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator, has a twofold objective: to support the humanitarian reform by ensuring predictable, flexible and timely humanitarian funding in response to the priority needs of vulnerable communities and to strengthen the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator and the humanitarian coordination system at large.