World | WPN World People News

A senior U.S. cybersecurity official has told NBC News that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.

UNICEF has vaccinated half a million children in Ninewa governorate against Polio and Measles.

A medical worker registers young patients in the small rural village of An-Nassiri, located about 60 km from Al Hudaydah, Yemen. Only 45 per cent of health facilities in the war-torn country are currently functioning.

The United Nations and the Olympic flags are raised at headquarters shortly before the torch ceremony (June 2004).

Irregular migrants atop freight train, ‘La Bestia,’ which takes them through Mexico towards the United States.

Burundian refugees collect water at Lusenda camp, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Humanitarian responders from six Pacific Island nations came together this week to improve how they prepare for and respond to natural disasters, fine-tuning their leadership and coordination skills. A two-and-a-half-day emergency simulation helped responders learn from each other and master the latest global best practices in emergency food security response.

Pakistan’s leading emergency logistics experts gathered in Islamabad 15-20 January for the nation’s first National Logistics Response Team (LRT) Training, jointly organized by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Global Logistics Cluster.

In the first month of this year, nearly 60 children were reportedly killed across Syria in relentless violence in East Ghouta, Damascus, Idlib and Afrin. Many more have been injured in the ongoing fighting.

On 23 March 2016, (left-right) 16-year-old Charmela and her friend Berthine, 17, access a social media platform in an Internet cafe on the island of Nosy Be, off the northwest coast of Madagascar.