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Boys crowd around a hand pump for a drink of water in a school in the city of Mazar, north Afghanistan. 2011

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian regime may be more vulnerable than people think, a high-level defector suggests, as he urges the U.S. to use “soft power” against Kim.

The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner (Protection), Mr. Volker Türk, concluded on Wednesday a two-day visit to Myanmar, during which he called for unrestricted humanitarian access for communities in need, and for the voluntary return of refugees in safety and dignity.

Federal prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against the Uzbek immigrant accused of running down and eight people with a truck in New York City.

In response to the vehicle attack in Manhattan on Tuesday, which killed eight and injured 11, and which authorities are treating as an act of terror, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen issued the following statement.

The highest-level North Korean defector to make it out of the country in 20 years says the West must use "maximum engagement" with the Kim Jong Un regime.

Hiroshi Kuniyoshi, the UNIDO Deputy Director General and Managing Director of External Relations and Field Representation, speaks at the opening of WEIF 2017 in Manama, Bahrain.

At least 4 Rohingya refugees died when their boat capsized close to shore in southern Bangladesh. Survivors are receiving assistance near Imamerdail area of Ukhia south of Cox’s Bazar.

UNICEF participated on Oct 30 in a United Nations humanitarian assistance convoy to two towns in the besieged area of East Ghouta, rural Damascus. These towns are Kafr Batna and Saqba.

A contribution of €300, 000 from Spain has enabled the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide much-needed food and nutrition assistance to nearly 23,000 vulnerable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children.