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Russia is preparing to hold its largest military drills in almost 40 years beginning Tuesday in eastern Siberia.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the five days of military exercises will include 300,000 soldiers, 36,000 military vehicles, 1,000 planes and 80 warships.

A genuine UNHCR protection officer collects information from disembarked refugees and migrants in Tripoli, Libya, in July 2018.

More than half a million children in conflict zones could die from extreme hunger before the end of the year, new research by Save the Children shows.

More than 100 migrants in two rubber boats died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya in early September, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 3 September 2018.

Migrants sit on mattresses laid on the floor at a detention centre, located on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday 1 February 2017.

A further escalation of fighting in Idlib, northwestern Syria, will put the lives of more than 1 million children at imminent risk, UNICEF said on Sep 07, 2018.

Ruins of Nagasaki about 800 metres from the hypocenter in mid-October 1945.

An inter-agency humanitarian convoy has reached Baggari region in South Sudan for the first time since it was cut off in June because of renewed fighting.

Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has been stabbed during a campaign rally in Minas Gerais Thursday.