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According to news reports some members of a caravan of migrants that has been crossing Mexico have arrived at the U.S. border.

The reports say that a several dozen members of the caravan have reached the border in Tijuana, Mexico. A few have applied for asylum, but most are awaiting a larger caravan contingent of about 500 asylum-seekers that is expected to reach the border in coming days.

Save the Children strongly condemns the Saudi and UAE-led coalition airstrike that killed at least 20 people at a wedding, thought to be mostly women and children. Thirty others were also reportedly injured in the attack in Hajja in northwest Yemen on Sunday.

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed addresses the Economic and Social Council's third Financing for Development follow-up Forum.

A woman with an umbrella walks in the rain in a field. To the left is a rainbow.

The extremely dry winter has affected 22 provinces across Afghanistan and now threatens to negatively impact the lives of one million people, with an additional two million who could feel its effects over the coming months.

French President Emmanuel Macron is heading Monday to the United States for a state visit with President Donald Trump, looking to convince him of the need to keep a U.S. presence in Syria even after the defeat of Islamic State terrorists, and to give the European Union an exemption on new aluminum and steel tariffs.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on April 20, was expressed its alarm at continuing forced returns to Nigeria of refugees and asylum-seekers from Cameroon’s Far North Region.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has scrapped plans to overhaul the country's social security system.

His announcement last week of changes to the country's pension plan sparked days of deadly protests.

The Libyan navy said it has recovered the bodies of 11 migrants and rescued 263 others in two separate operations off Libya's western coast.

The Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Mr. Neal Walker, on April 20th, briefed Member States and International Organizations on the dire humanitarian situation faced by 4.4 million conflict-affected people in eastern Ukraine. After four years of conflict, 3.4 million people in Ukraine are struggling to cope with the impact of the humanitarian crisis and urgently require humanitarian assistance and protection.