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Rohingya children and families flee to Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh. More than half a million new refugees have crossed into Cox’s Bazar since 25 August.

The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$1 million contribution from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide urgent food and nutrition assistance to people affected by food crises in Afghanistan on Oct 16.

A groundbreaking programme to support refugees in Turkey is providing monthly cash assistance to vulnerable families at an unprecedented scale. Just a year after its launch, the European Union-funded programme is reaching 1 million refugees, most of them from war-torn Syria.

Spain's high court ordered two top Catalan separatists jailed for alleged sedition while the question of the region's independence remains unclear.

A voter casts his ballot in municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as a team of OSCE/ODIHR observers lead by Ambassador Audrey Glover visits a polling station in the Skopje municipality of Šuto Orizari. 15 October 2017.

A Rohingya family wades through water crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, near the village of Anzuman Para in Palong Khali.

The European Union has imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at punishing the country for its nuclear and ballistic weapons program.

The man accused of planting two bombs in New York, leaving 30 people injured in September of last year, was found guilty of all charges Monday.

Address by His Holiness Pope Francis. World Food Day Ceremony, FAO Headquarters (Plenary hall).

School children attend a parade in South Africa.