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IOM staff assists Somali and Ethiopian migrants who were forced into the sea by smugglers.

A mother with her children in Monguno, Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

UNICEF Regional Director Geert Cappelaere meets children at a UNICEF-supported Child Friendly Space in the Municipality of Janzour in Tripoli, Libya.

Canada's consular affairs office said Thursday that one of its diplomats in Cuba was suffering from the same mysterious hearing loss that apparently forced several U.S. diplomats to leave Havana.

Guam’s governor says his Pacific island is concerned but not in a panic in the face of new threats by North Korea to launch ballistic missiles toward the U.S. territory located about 3,400 kilometers from Pyongyang.

A mother holds up an empty cooking pot as she crouches alongside her daughter inside their makeshift home at a settlement near the town of Ainabo, Somalia, Thursday 9 March 2017.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$1 million contribution from the United States to support vulnerable refugees from Western Sahara in Algeria on Aug 09. WFP will use the funds to provide staple food items as part of monthly food rations for thousands of refugee families.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has confirmed the arrest of the man suspected of ramming a car into a group of French soldiers Wednesday in a suburb of Paris, injuring six of them in what authorities say was a deliberate attack.

A market in east Mosul, Iraq.

David Shearer Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Juba at the arrival of the UN-mandated regional force in the country.