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Over the past two days more than 160 participants, including media actors, governments and civil society organizations from across the South-Eastearn European region gathered in Struga to discuss the most pressing media freedom challenges and provide recommendations for the improvement of press freedom and the media environment in the region.

China's first domestically built aircraft carrier has begun sea trials.

The still-unnamed ship left the northern port of Dalian early Sunday to "test the reliability and stability of its propulsion and other system,'' the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

A voter at a polling station in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, taking part in the first national elections since the Iraqi military declared victory over ISIL in late 2017.

Children gather at the school in Ndenga village, 30 kilometres from Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic. As of October 2017, violent clashes and inter-communal tensions fuelled by armed groups have continuously increased in the country.

A community forest conservation area in Dalaikoro, Fiji. Forest cover is vital to maintain the ecosystem in the region, which is in turn critical for communities in the Pacific island nation.

Women in line to vote during the 5 April 2014 elections in Afghanistan.

Victims of trafficking are failed by the UK’s immigration policy.

​The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$18.6 million contribution from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) which will be used to provide urgent food assistance in Yemen and to support Rohingya refugees and host communities in the Cox’s Bazar area in Bangladesh.

Switzerland’s renewed support to WFP helps thousands of poor Gazans cope with increased hardships.

Malaysia's former leader, Mahathir Mohamad, was sworn in Thursday as the country's seventh prime minister after his stunning election victory the day before, a feat that makes him the world's oldest elected leader.