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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.

Participants during the OSCE-organized seminar on the potential of labour migration for the economic development of Turkmenistan, 29 August 2018 (OSCE)

José Viegas Filho, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, briefs the Security Council on the situation in the country.

In this file photo, WFP delivers emergency aid to locations in rural Idlib. Amid fears of a Government offensive there, the UN is warning of a possible humanitarian catastrophe.

The World Bank is committing US$100 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing to help prevent Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In partnership with the international relief agency, Caritas, WFP has started distributing food to patients and other people directly affected by the outbreak of Ebola virus in the North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, addresses the Security Council meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security.