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Ahmed Najee, aged 9, collects UNHCR aid items in Taizz, Yemen.

"We at UNICEF are appalled by reports of attacks against four medical facilities in Syria – two of which were supported by UNICEF. One is a child and maternal hospital where children were reportedly killed and scores evacuated.

On 2 January 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali (right), Secretary-General of the United Nations, arrives at the Secretariat Entrance for his first working day at the United Nations. Aly Teymour, Chief of Protocol, escorts him into the building.

Water being trucked into a displacement camp where about 200 families, displaced from Sa’ada, Yemen, live.

CAR refugee Jean Baptiste casts his vote in the second round of the CAR presidential elections in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Young Syrian children at Nizip refugee camp near Turkey's border with Syria

Parliamentary committees and political groups meet in Brussels this week

Teachers’ unions in Italy are urging Egyptian authorities to launch a full investigation into the death of Giulio Regeni, who was murdered while publishing articles on trade union rights, and who’s death remains a mystery.

Officials in Haiti begin counting ballots at the end of polling on election day, 9 August 2015.

Archaeological site of Palmyra in Syria.