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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Kristin Davis meets Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Lawmakers in Zimbabwe plan to begin impeachment proceedings Tuesday against longtime President Robert Mugabe after he ignored a deadline to step down.

On 17 November 2017, the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) and the European Union (EU) Political and Security Committee (EU PSC) held their 10th Annual Joint Consultative Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of their regular dialogue within the framework of the Africa – EU partnership.

Iranian media reports say that five Iranian Shrine Defenders — including two high-ranking commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — have been killed in the ongoing fight inside Syria.

After years of being shielded from deportation from the United States while their country recovers from a devastating 2010 earthquake, tens of thousands of Haitians will lose that security status.

Zimbabwe's longtime president Robert Mugabe is facing impeachment after making it clear in a televised speech he will not resign.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is seriously concerned by proposals announced on November 17, by Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.

An international fleet of ships and planes is fighting eight-meter high waves and 74 kilometer per hour winds searching for the ARA San Juan, a missing Argentine submarine with a crew of 44.

Young friends at Bangui’s Mpoko airport site for displaced people, Central African Republic, November 2015

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$15 million emergency contribution from the Government of Japan to support WFP’s response to the refugee crisis in Bangladesh.