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World Humanitarian Day 2018 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, in which 22 UN staff and other civilians lost their lives. Each year on 19 August, the humanitarian community remembers aid workers who lost their lives in the line of duty and pays tribute to those who deliver aid to vulnerable communities in some of the world's most dangerous crises.

ChildFund, Futures Without Violence, Save the Children and World Vision applaud the introduction of S.Res. 606 by Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, calling on Congress to recognize the harmful impact that violence has on the healthy development of children and youth.

A girl, carrying jerrycans of water, walks past a pile of debris, on a street in Aleppo, Syria.

Amnesty International is demanding Vietnam immediately and unconditionally free environmental activist Le Dinh Luong, who is scheduled to go on trial Thursday.

The Aquarius ship arrives in Malta.

The U.S. on Wednesday sanctioned companies in China, Russia and Singapore it says were violating the trade embargo with North Korea, Washington's latest effort to keep pressure on Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons development.

The Central African Republic Humanitarian Fund of the (CAR HF) is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Established on 31 July 2008, this multi-donor humanitarian funding instrument managed by OCHA CAR, under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator, has a twofold objective: to support the humanitarian reform by ensuring predictable, flexible and timely humanitarian funding in response to the priority needs of vulnerable communities and to strengthen the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator and the humanitarian coordination system at large.

As hundreds of rescuers sorted through mountains of concrete slabs and other rubble Wednesday in search of more survivors one day after a deadly bridge collapse in Italy, anger mounted over possible design flaws and poor maintenance.

Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, May 2018.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing food to tens of thousands of people seeking temporary shelter following violent protests in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.