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In Britain 55% consider membership to have been of benefit to the country. Conversely the number of Britons who believe the UK has not benefitted from EU membership has dropped by 7 percentage points to 27%.

The Austrian OSCE Chairmanship closely followed the meeting of the President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, and the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, organized under the auspices of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in Geneva on 16 October.

UNHCR teams in Libya have been responding to the urgent humanitarian needs in and around Sabratha, a city located some 80 kilometres west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Children in line for a daily meal in Ecuador.

Rohingya children and families flee to Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh. More than half a million new refugees have crossed into Cox’s Bazar since 25 August.

The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$1 million contribution from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide urgent food and nutrition assistance to people affected by food crises in Afghanistan on Oct 16.

A groundbreaking programme to support refugees in Turkey is providing monthly cash assistance to vulnerable families at an unprecedented scale. Just a year after its launch, the European Union-funded programme is reaching 1 million refugees, most of them from war-torn Syria.

Spain's high court ordered two top Catalan separatists jailed for alleged sedition while the question of the region's independence remains unclear.

A voter casts his ballot in municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as a team of OSCE/ODIHR observers lead by Ambassador Audrey Glover visits a polling station in the Skopje municipality of Šuto Orizari. 15 October 2017.

A Rohingya family wades through water crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, near the village of Anzuman Para in Palong Khali.