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A battle over who is in charge of a government office erupted in Washington Monday, involving dueling emails, lawsuits, and free doughnuts.

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney and Obama administration holdover Leandra English both say they are acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency — and both showed up for work Monday morning to take over the same job.

English, the bureau’s deputy director, welcomed back employees to the office after the Thanksgiving holiday.

On 25 November 2017, a shipment of vaccines is delivered to the Sana’a International airport, bringing in15 tonnes of BCG, Penta and PCV vaccine supplies to protect Yemeni children from diseases such as diphtheria and tetanus.

Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria, briefs the Security Council, via video conference.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes China’s contribution to provide food assistance to Afghan and Iraqi refugees and promote education for refugee girls residing in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Sufi Muslims in Egypt say they plan to continue plans for an annual celebration of the birthday of their prophet, Mohammed, even as the country reels from the massacre at a Sinai mosque that killed 305 worshippers and wounded another 128.

UNHCR is deeply disturbed by the forcible removal of refugees and asylum-seekers from the former ‘Regional Processing Centre’ on Manus Island, on November 24. The beating of refugees and asylum-seekers by uniformed officers with metal poles, shown by footage released, on November 24, is both shocking and inexcusable.

Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunday voted alongside thousands of people in municipal elections that kick off the process to end his family's hold on the island nation.

A woman stands in a shelter for girls and women who have endured sexual and gender-based violence, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.

Mark Lowcock, new UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Risking their lives to reach Europe from North Africa, a boatload of people, some of them likely in need of international protection, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian Navy.