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A child is being vaccinated against polio and given vitamin A supplement in the village of Bako, in the North West of Côte d’Ivoire.

The Government of Kuwait has announced a US$5 million contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for food assistance to the most vulnerable Syrians affected by the unabating conflict.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)welcomed a donation of rice valued at US$1.8 million from the Government of Japan to support some 52,000 children in Swaziland on Dec 13 for a period of one year.

A spokesman for the Kremlin told Russian state-owned media Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin had prepared "from dawn till dusk" for his annual news conference scheduled for Thursday.

A severed foot washed up on the shores of Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, the 13th in a string of severed feet discovered in the city over the past decade.

Secretary-General António Guterres (on screen) addresses the One Planet Summit in Paris.

Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), during the Security Council on the situation in Sudan and South Sudan.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$500,000 contribution from the Kuwait Red Crescent Society for urgent food assistance to Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state for safety in Bangladesh.

The European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) have contributed EUR 10.7 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in order to provide vital food assistance for some 755,000 people in Niger.

Polls are now closed in Alabama in what would normally be a routine election but has instead attracted global attention.