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At least one explosion went off Thursday evening in the vicinity of the main hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen, where Save the Children runs a diphtheria treatment center.

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have approved a draft of a proposed agreement to prevent fighting in the disputed South China Sea.

A fresh wave of violence that’s seen bombing escalate and deadly clashes erupt south of Hodeidah is putting the lives of thousands of children in extreme danger, Save the Children is warning.

A woman and children wait as UNICEF-supported emergency humanitarian supplies are distributed in Hudaydah, Yemen, in June 2018.

The head of Iran's most powerful military body on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's offer of direct talks with Iranian leaders, saying Tehran never would allow talks with what he called the "Great Satan."

In downtown Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, a young displaced girl writes in a notebook in front of a formerly abandoned building where she lives with her family.

UNHCR staff assess the needs of families displaced from Afrin in Zyarah, Syria, April 2018.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Texas company from releasing instructions on how to use a three-dimensional printer to make guns at home.

Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry which has trapped men, women and children in forced labour and sexual exploitation.

Zainab Kamara, supported by her mother, breastfeeds one of her twin sons, 3-month-old Alhassan Cargo, in Karineh Village in Sierra Leone.