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Miroslav Lajčák President of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, briefs on the Assembly's priorities for 2018.

Migrants wait in line to be registered in Berlin, Germany.

UNHCR staff and local authorities assist recently arrived Cameroonians seeking refuge in Obanliku, south-east Nigeria, October 2017.

While Congress and the White House debate the future of young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, a new survey shows Americans overwhelmingly think they should be allowed to stay and apply to be citizens.

Michael Keating (left), UN Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, and Somaliland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Saad Ali Shire, speak to reporters at a press conference in Hargeisa, Somaliland.

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the international agreement on Iran's nuclear program is working, and that while there are concerns about Iran's development of ballistic missiles and other activities in the Middle East, those should be dealt with as a separate issue.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) appealed on Jan 11 to donors to contribute funds so that a 25 percent reduction from January onwards in food or cash assistance for more than 100,000 refugees in Rwanda can be reversed as soon as possible.

President Donald Trump has suggested that he is on very good terms with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un despite their recent debate over whose desk has a bigger nuclear button.

A new poll from Quinnipiac University says some 53 percent of American voters believe President Donald Trump is intelligent, but 57 percent say he is not fit to serve as president.

In a rare admission of guilt, Myanmar's military says its security forces were responsible for the deaths of 10 Rohingya found in a mass grave.