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Colonel Valery Revenko (l), First Deputy Head of the International Military Co-operation Department of Belarus' Defence Ministry, and Matti Saarelainen, Director of the Finland-based European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, addressing OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation session on importance of transparency and reliability of military information, Vienna, 31 January 2018.

Wisconsin voters this spring will choose a new state Supreme Court justice to fill the first open seat on the high court in more than a decade. Voters will narrow the field from three candidates to two in the February primary; the two finalists will face each other in the April 3 election. The winner will serve a 10-year term on the court.

African leaders were very close to officially demanding President Donald Trump publicly apologize for reportedly crude remarks about the continent and immigration, but backed off, reports say.

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) and Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, in conversation during the opening of the 2018 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum.

From 21-24 February 2016, UNRWA distributed 19,160 thermal blankets to approximately 5,700 Palestinian refugee and other civilian families from the besieged and hard to reach Syrian communities of Yarmouk, Yalda, Babila and Beit Saham.

In 2017, the Government of Belgium reinforced its partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in efforts to fight hunger and malnutrition. Last year, the Belgian Development Cooperation contributed nearly €20 million to WFP operations that assisted more than 14.5 million people in nine countries and supported responses to some of the world’s most pressing humanitarian crises.

Last year, the European Commission contributed over €1 billion to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), making it the second-largest donor to the agency in 2017. Millions of people across 48 countries had better access to lifesaving and nutritious food thanks to the European Union’s (EU) commitment to fight hunger worldwide.

10-month-old Atica, a Rohingya refugee, sips water from a mug held by her sister, 11-year-old Musaddeka, after eating ready-to-use therapeutic food, at their family’s shelter in the Moinerghona refugee camp, Bangladesh.

A new executive order, issued as U.S. President Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address, cancels a 2009 order in which President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with humanitarian partners, on Januray 31, launched an inter-agency funding appeal for US$157 million to help over a quarter of a million people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin region.