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Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Thomas Bach, President of the IOC, hold a joint press encounter at the IOC office in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.

An elderly woman begs for food at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Dinsoor, Somalia.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that he was boosting the military presence along the border with Venezuela as tens of thousands of Venezuelans have tried to escape food and fuel shortages and a clampdown on civil rights.

A judge has granted a chemistry professor from Bangladesh, who is living near Kansas City, a temporary stay from deportation, two weeks after immigration agents arrested him at his home.

Dr. Lassina Zerbo (l-r), Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), H. E. Ambassador Maria Assunta Accili Sabbatini, Chairperson of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, and Marta Žiaková, Chairperson of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Slovakia at the meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation, Vienna, 7 February 2018.

A senior U.S. cybersecurity official has told NBC News that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.

UNICEF has vaccinated half a million children in Ninewa governorate against Polio and Measles.

A medical worker registers young patients in the small rural village of An-Nassiri, located about 60 km from Al Hudaydah, Yemen. Only 45 per cent of health facilities in the war-torn country are currently functioning.

The United Nations and the Olympic flags are raised at headquarters shortly before the torch ceremony (June 2004).