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Special envoys from South Korean President Moon Jae-in headed to North Korea Monday to convey his message concerning denuclearization and a permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Slovakia's President Andrej Kiska called Sunday for either substantial changes in the government or snap elections in the wake of the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancee.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed Sunday that his military's offensive against rebels in the Damascus suburb of east Ghouta will continue, even while U.S. and British leaders accuse him of creating a humanitarian disaster.

Male Lion at the Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya.

The United Nations and its partners plan to deliver much-needed relief assistance to the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta this week, the global organization’s humanitarian wing said on Sunday.

In this September 2017 photograph, humanitarians work through the night to load relief supplies onto an inter-agency convoy bound for east Ghouta, Syria.

To stop money flowing to terrorists, EU countries should track suspicious transactions and charities, and share intelligence more proactively, urge MEPs.

The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, the first lethal weaponry the U.S. has sold to Ukraine since Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014.

Despite the issuing of a high number of asylum decisions by national asylum systems in the EU+ and a resulting decrease in backlog, nearly half a million cases remain pending.

The United Nations World Food Programme urged governments in West Africa to invest more money in school meal programmes so these can act as a catalyst for improved economic and social welfare communities across the region on Mar 01, 2018. The call was made on African Day of School Feeding which is being celebrated for the third year in a row.