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The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, strongly deplores the deadly ambush on a convoy carrying humanitarian food supplies for conflict-affected persons on Saturday 16 December, and expressed grave concern over the limitations that attacks of this nature may have on the delivery of life-saving supplies to people in need in north-east Nigeria.

A power outage at the international airport in the southern U.S. city of Atlanta has disrupted all flights in and out of the hub.

Interpol has canceled the Red Corner Notice it issued on the request of the Indian government against controversial Islamic scholar Zakir Naik, citing insufficient evidence against Naik. But India’s National Investigative Agency (NIA) said it will file a fresh request.

UNHCR staff and Niger government officials meet refugees off an evacuation flight from Libya at Diori Hamani International Airport in the capital, Niamey, in November.

President Donald Trump is set to unveil on Monday his strategy to counter what he considers the most dire global threats to the United States.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey hopes to open an embassy to a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem in the future..

Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan wait for transport from Nadapal transit centre on the Kenyan border to Kakuma refugee camp.

A child carries his younger sister on his back. Both children are living on the street in Aweil, South Sudan.

A child walks past mattresses laid on the floor in the women's section of the Al-Nasr detention centre in Zawiya, Libya, Sunday 20 August 2017.

Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria briefs the press during the intra-Syrian talks, Geneva.