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A Ukranian refugee family with eleven children enter Romania at the Isaccea border crossing.

After three days of intense clashes across areas in parts of Ukraine, the number of civilian casualties and damage to critical infrastructure are growing, and the United Nations and its relief partners are working day and night to care for the injured, the Security Council heard on Monday during an urgent meeting on the humanitarian situation in the country.

"President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance,” Secretary-General António Guterres urged Wednesday evening at the start of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, the body's second late night session this week.

The latest developments in Ukraine are testing “the entire international system”, Secretary-General António Guterres said at a media stakeout on Tuesday, adding “we must pass this test.”

The Security Council discusses the situation in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian military position along the contact line which divides government and non-government controlled areas in Eastern Ukraine.

A one-and-a-half year-old girl is treated for malnutrition at a hospital in Yemen.

The impacts of climate change are already “very visible” and “happening worldwide”, the head of the UN weather agency told the start of the 55th Session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which convened on Monday.

A variety of pulses on display in a market in Cairo, Egypt.

Somali women and children stand outside temporary tents in the Dagahaley refugee camp near the Kenya-Somalia border.