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Venezuela's opposition coalition has rejected the results of Sunday's gubernatorial elections in 23 states and is calling for opposition candidates to hold street demonstrations on Monday.

After more than six decades of moderate and centrist governments, Austria appears to be shifting to the right after conservative Sebastian Kurz and his People's Party won Sunday's parliamentary election.

A seven-year-old girl crosses an improvised wooden bridge which she built after Hurricane Irma caused severe damaged in the Five Cays’ settlement of Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Sandra Honoré, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), briefs the Security Council.

UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.

“UNICEF has received reports that ongoing violence in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria has destroyed a UNICEF-supported vaccine cold room in al-Mayadin district, with at least 140,000 doses of vaccines lost, including some planned for use in tackling vaccine-preventable childhood diseases in the area. UNICEF is currently verifying this alarming report.

A project designed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the government of Senegal to make smallholder farmers in West Africa better able to cope with the impact of climate change has been approved by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The US$10 million project will benefit some 400,000 smallholder farmers and vulnerable people in Senegal, helping them become more resilient to climate shocks such as drought which has afflicted much of Africa in recent decades.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has started providing vital food assistance to families who have been displaced by clashes between armed groups in western Libya’s Sabratha. The area has recently experienced an upsurge of conflict.

A small earthquake has been detected early Friday near North Korea's nuclear test site, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Increase resettlement efforts to prevent dangerous journeys and loss of lives