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The Australian Government’s announced change in legal status and withdrawal of support to refugees and asylum-seekers is a blatant attempt to coerce the most vulnerable to return to Papua New Guinea, Nauru, or their countries of origin. Removing accommodation and financial support leaves people at serious risk of destitution in Australia. Equally, the withdrawal of access to basic services such as trauma and torture counselling will exacerbate their already precarious situation.

The DFID contribution will be used to provide WFP food assistance to more than two million people in Yemen.

A child pushes a wheelbarrow containing empty jerry cans to fill with water from a nearby tap providing untreated water from the White Nile in Juba, South Sudan.

An atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 1 November 1952.

Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah of the State of Palestine brief the press.

Participants at the retreat engage in interactive activities while discussing co-operation among NGOs from both banks, Merenesti, 25 August 2017.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who met with his Finnish counterpart at the White House on Monday, said the United States was "very protective" of the Baltic region, especially in terms of the northern European states' relations with Russia.

“UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes commitments made at the Paris meeting on migration and asylum, on August 28th.

A boy from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state at a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

In Kuwait, Secretary-General António Guterres takes questions from reporters.