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UN Iraq Special Representative, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, visits Tahrir Square in Baghdad to talk to protesters.

Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the Paris Peace Forum in Paris, France.

Protesters on the streets of La Paz, Bolivia.

Iran’s nuclear agency Thursday announced resumption of uranium enrichment at the country’s underground Fordow nuclear facility, a site where, under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, it had agreed not to carry out any enrichment or enrichment-related research.

The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison Thursday for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

An airplane – a Fokker 50 cargo freighter - carrying six metric tons of aid items from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, landed on November 4 in Belet Weyne in Somalia’s Hiirshabelle state to assist people displaced by the country’s worst flooding in years.

A peacekeeping officer during a patrol in the streets of Gao, Mali, performed daily by United Nations Police (UNPOL) Officers from MINUSMA and Malian National Guard Officers. 7 November 2018.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is troubled by the U.S. decision, announced on November 2, to reduce, substantially and for the third consecutive year, the number of refugees it will admit for resettlement in the United States over the coming year.

More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. In the latest departure, a boat carrying 114 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden on Monday and arrived at the Port of Berbera in Somalia on October 29.

At the Qanfoodah Detention Centre in Benghazi, Libya, male Afrian detainees wait to be declared present at a morning roll call.