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With millions of workers increasingly affected by the climate crisis the route to securing livelihoods in the future lies in a wholesale transformation of how we power the planet and manage our resources, the UN chief said on Thursday, at a COP25 climate action event focused on greener jobs.

A woman and her family wade through a flooded plain to reach their home in Thaker, Unity state, South Sudan.

Six-year-old girl in Beira receives her education pack as part of UNICEF's ramped-up response to children and families in Mozambique affected by Cylcone Idai, April 2019.

The United Nations Network on Migration commemorates this first anniversary of the adoption in Marrakech, Morocco, of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Global Compact) and celebrates the world’s 272 million migrants and their important role and the contributions to countries of origin and destination.

Two Afghan refugee sisters living in Iran line up to start the school year.

Venezuelans Ricardo and Maria hold their one-month-old son at a shelter in Manaus, Brazil.

The FBI has officially identified the shooter at the U.S. naval base in Pensacola, Florida who shot and killed three people Friday.

The Regional Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, November 2014.

France's most serious nationwide work stoppage in decades frustrated weekend travelers Saturday as truckers blocked thoroughfares and vital transportation services continued to operate far below normal capacity.

UNHCR staff talk to students on the first day of term at Tal Estabel school in Aleppo, Syria, September 2019.