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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.

Thousands cheered in Addis Ababa Sunday as the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea embraced at a concert celebrating a peace deal between the two former mortal foes.

Participants in the brainstorming seminar from the OSCE, the UN, international development and government institutions and think tanks from Central Asian countries including Afghanistan, Bishkek, 12 July 2018.

Israel agents broke into an Iranian warehouse and smuggled out tens of thousands of pages and nearly 200 computer discs on Iranian plans to build a nuclear weapon, U.S. media reports say.

Israel agents broke into an Iranian warehouse and smuggled out tens of thousands of pages and nearly 200 computer discs on Iranian plans to build a nuclear weapon, U.S. media reports say.

France has won its second World Cup championship, defeating Croatia 4-2 Sunday at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium

France led 2-1 at halftime, thanks to an own-goal by Croatian Mario Mandzukic, who headed a free kick into his own team's net, and a penalty kick by Antoine Griezmann. Croatia's Ivan Perisic briefly leveled the game around 30 minutes in, scoring Croatia's first goal.

Iraq's National Security Council deployed security forces and cut internet services Saturday as protests that began in Basra spread to several other cities.

U.S. President Donald Trump declared victory Thursday as the NATO summit ended, saying he had won commitments from other countries to increase their defense spending after he had complained that Washington for too long has borne the brunt of financing the West's key military alliance.