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Huave women in Mexico carrying maize cobs.

War-affected Kunduz civilians in Afghanistan receive humanitarian aid.

A Republican U.S. senator, who is one of President Donald Trump's biggest critics, will this week deliver a speech comparing Trump's treatment of the media to the behavior of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

The United Nations says four mobile cranes urgently needed to unload cargo and humanitarian aid have arrived at a central seaport in hunger-wracked Yemen.

Aid agencies in Afghanistan need US$430 million this year to help the most vulnerable girls, women, boys and men across the country. The money will be used to assist 2.8 million people displaced by conflict or natural disasters with emergency shelter and food, to treat patients injured by conflict, to feed malnourished children or assist vulnerable families returning home after years in Iran or Pakistan.

North Korea will send a 140-member orchestra to perform during the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month, a move seen by the South's government as a conciliatory gesture following months of nuclear tensions.

Hamouriya, east Ghouta, Syria. Bilal, 13, stands on the rubble of destroyed buildings in Hamouriya, east Ghouta.

The Iranian government acknowledged Sunday that 25 people had been killed during recent anti-government protests in cities throughout the country.

Hundreds of people took the streets of Tunisia's capital for a new demonstration Sunday, and in one district police fired tear gas to disperse dozens of stone-throwing youths on the seventh anniversary of the ousting of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

U.S. Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen said Sunday it was "unfortunate" there was a false emergency alarm about an incoming missile in Hawaii, but said authorities are "all working to make sure it doesn’t happen again."