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War, violence and persecution worldwide are causing more people than ever to be forcibly displaced, on June 19th, according to a report published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Amos Lomerigorok, 25, (right) and his pregnant wife Paulina Chepsera, 20, sit in their home in a remote village accessible only by foot in the Amudat district, Karamoja region, eastern Uganda, Wednesday 15 March 2017.

Muzoon Almellehan visits a classroom at Yakoua school in Bol, Lake Region, Chad, Friday 21 April 2017. There are 500 displaced children attending the school of 800 students and only eight teachers, causing strain on an already weak education system.

The UK Brexit Secretary David Davis heads into June 19’s first official talks to leave the European Union on a mission to deliver on the will of the British people.

The increased threat of terrorism and a flood of illegal firearms into Australia have prompted the government to offer its first national gun amnesty since a massacre at a former penal colony more than 20 years ago. In 1996, 35 people were killed by a lone gunman at Port Arthur in Tasmania. That tragedy prompted tough gun control measures.

The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returns to Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, following a collision with a merchant vessel in the Philippine Sea while operating about 64 miles southwest of Yokosuka, June 17, 2017.

Senegalese UNPOL Officers patrol the streets of Gao, Mali.

On 1 February 2017, following intense fighting in Avdiivka, Dasha, 1.5 year old, is held by her mother outside a heated emergency shelter in Avdiivka.

On 3 June 2017 in the makeshift camp at Ain Issa, 50 km north of the Raqqa in the Syrian Arab Republic, a boy carries a jerrycan filled with water.

The wife of the man who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others at a baseball field outside Washington Wednesday said she saw no signs that her husband was planning any violence when he told her he was traveling to the nation’s capital earlier this year.