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Ten people were injured and sent to hospitals when a homemade bomb detonated in a supermarket in St. Petersburg, Russia, officials said Wednesday.

A Kremlin spokesman suggested Tuesday that a call by Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny to boycott next year's presidential election may be illegal.

The United States has imposed sanctions on two North Korean officials for their role in Pyongyang's ballistic missile program.

A Treasury Department statement said Kim Jong Sik and Ri Pyong Chol are "key leaders of North Korea's unlawful weapons programs."

United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

The United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) will contribute £32.5 million in support of United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Sudan over the next two years.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is grateful for a landmark contribution by China that will provide food and nutrition assistance to displaced people and returnee families in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Rohingya children in the camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh urgently need warm clothes and blankets as overnight temperatures drop with the onset of winter, Save the Children is warning.

Humanitarian groups have begun evacuating sick people from a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The United Nations had called for an emergency evacuation of nearly 500 patients stranded in Eastern Ghouta, home to 400,000 residents, which has been cut off from food and medical aid since 2013. Many of them are children.

On December 20, marks 1,000 days since the escalation of the conflict in Yemen, which has already led to thousands of children dying from violence, hunger or preventable diseases like cholera.

Russia and China each signaled Monday a desire for a peaceful resolution to the tensions surrounding North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity.