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Children collect clean and safe water from a tap stand in Kyein Ni Pyin camp, home to almost 6,000 Rohingya displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in 2012.

An Iranian lawmaker says about 3,700 people have been arrested in anti-government protests across Iran, a much higher number than previously estimated.

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon stepped down as executive chairman of Breitbart News Network on Tuesday, the conservative news outlet announced Tuesday.

More than 260,000 immigrants from El Salvador are full of anxiety and questions after the Trump administration said it was ending their authorization to stay in the country.

President Donald Trump is calling Tuesday's rare face-to-face talks between North and South Korea "a big start," hoping they go beyond whether the North will be a part of next month's Winter Olympics.

The Council has added 16 persons and one entity, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces (MPAF), to the lists of those subject to an asset freeze and travel restrictions, transposing part of the new sanctions imposed by UN Security Council resolution 2397 (2017).

The Trump administration is asking Congress for nearly $18 billion to build more than 700 miles of border wall along the southwest, news reports unveiled on January 5. Reportedly, the Trump administration envisions the project unfolding in the next decade and would cover nearly half of the 2,000-mile southwest border with some sort of fencing or wall.

In 2017, famine was averted in Northeast Nigeria. Through its civil protection and humanitarian arm, ECHO, the European Commission contributed significantly to this achievement by contributing a total of €19.3 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Of this sum, more than a third – €7.3 million – directly allowed the UN agency to save lives threatened by hunger.

Ceremony in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, paying tribute to the 14 UN peacekeepers who were killed in early December 2017 during an attack on the UN mission’s base in Semuliki.

Peacekeepers with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) consult a map as they drive through vast desert areas in Smara, Western Sahara.