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Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah of the State of Palestine brief the press.

Participants at the retreat engage in interactive activities while discussing co-operation among NGOs from both banks, Merenesti, 25 August 2017.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who met with his Finnish counterpart at the White House on Monday, said the United States was "very protective" of the Baltic region, especially in terms of the northern European states' relations with Russia.

“UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes commitments made at the Paris meeting on migration and asylum, on August 28th.

A boy from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state at a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

In Kuwait, Secretary-General António Guterres takes questions from reporters.

CICIG Commissioner Iván Velásquez.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to reduce food rations for 320,000 refugees in Mtendeli, Nduta and Nyarugusu Camps in northwest Tanzania as a result of funding shortfalls. WFP urgently requires US$23.6 million from now through to December 2017 to be able to continue meeting the food and nutritional needs of refugees in Tanzania.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed this week’s announcement of a US$615,000 (ZAR 8 million) contribution from the Government of South Africa that will help us provide vital emergency assistance to more than 10,000 people affected by mudslides and flooding in Sierra Leone.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun food distributions to 180,000 people in response to the Nepal floods. The tragedy has affected 1.7 million people, with nearly 461,000 of them displaced from their homes and in desperate need of assistance . The distributions are going on as the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) warns of more floods in coming days.