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The effectiveness of current drug control policies and strategic and innovative approaches to reducing the supply and demand of illicit drugs are the focus of the two-day OSCE-wide anti-drugs conference that opened in Vienna, on July 16. The conference brings together some 130 representatives of OSCE participating States and OSCE Partners for Co-operation.

Authorities in Hong Kong have begun the unprecedented step of outlawing a political party that advocates the territory's independence from China.

U.S. and NATO-led coalition officials are pushing back on a report that U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed "top diplomats" to pursue "direct talks" with the Taliban in an effort to "jump-start" negotiations with the militant group in the hope of bringing an end to the 17-year war in Afghanistan.

Eritrea has reopened its embassy in Ethiopia.The reopening Monday came a week after the two countries declared an end to two decades of a military stalemate over a border war in which tens of thousands of people died.

Thousands of Nicaraguans have protested since April. More than a hundred people have died in clashes with authorities.

left to right: Keynote Speaker Michelle Yeoh, USG Liu Zhenmin (DESA), UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák, ECOSOC President Marie Chatardová, USG Catherine Pollard (DGACM) and UN Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake at the opening of the Ministerial segment of 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a contribution of dates from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia worth US$1.5 million to support refugees residing in camps in Algeria.

Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

Funeral of civilian killed in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2018. The UN mission in the country has reported that a record number of Afghan civilians were killed by warring parties in the first half of 2018.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes two generous contributions totalling £9.1 million (USD 12 million) from the United Kingdom government to support WFP operations in Malawi.