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The world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day Saturday, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in 1945.

A child's plush toy lies in the rubble of a destroyed building in rural Damascus, Syria.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday threw his support behind President Donald Trump’s immigration reform proposal, announced this week ahead of schedule.

The United States has slapped sanctions on six Taliban and Haqqani network militants as it again demands more help from Pakistan to disrupt terrorist financing.

Over 240,000 residents in five cities across Uzbekistan are to benefit from improved efficiency and quality of heating and hot water services, thanks to the District Heating Energy Efficiency Project approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, on January 25. The Project will be financed by a US$ 140 million credit from the International Development Association.

Children at a displacement camp in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

On large screen: Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov briefs the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question.

From left: David Abney, Chairman and CEO of UPS and David Beasley, Executive Director of World Food Programme, at Davos.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Korean YouTube celebrity Mr. Great Library (Dong-Hyun Na) have launched the “Player Unknown’s ShareTheMeal” campaign to alert the public about the rapid increase in the number of hungry people around the world.

The U.S. State Department has confirmed that four Americans were among those killed in an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, over the weekend. Two other U.S. citizens were injured.