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President Donald Trump has repeatedly used immigration as a means of rallying voters, both during his campaign and his presidency and is returning to it as a wedge issue for the November elections.

A lot has changed – for the better. When I joined Anti-Slavery International – its name was a more old-fashioned Anti-Slavery Society at that time – as a member, most people were genuinely surprised to learn that slavery still existed. They thought it was something for the history books.

On 5 August 2018 in Hakimpara Refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tasmin, 10, (left), a Bangladeshi student, helps her friend Rajima, 10, (right), a Rohingya refugee, with her studies.

U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser says the reimposition of economic sanctions against Iran has had a "profound effect," and the administration wants to go further than the measures in place before the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

One in two Rohingya children who fled to Bangladesh without their parents were orphaned by brutal violence, new research by Save the Children suggests ahead of the one-year anniversary of the crisis on Saturday, August 25.

Secretary-General António Guterres speaking at the Wreath-laying Ceremony for the Observance of the 15th Anniversary of the Bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad, on 17 August 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York.

Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the media at UN Headquarters.

The Ecuadorian government is asking 13 other South American nations to attend a regional summit to discuss the Venezuelan migrant crisis.

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter said they have removed hundreds of pages and accounts linked to Russia and Iran ahead of the midterm elections in the U.S.

El Salvador is denying asking Taiwan for large sums of money in return for maintaining diplomatic relations with Taipei, before Tuesday switching ties to China.