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While access to reproductive and maternal health care is expanding, local custom keeps Fereshta (above), like many women in Afghanistan, from seeking timely emergency obstetric care.

A boy suffering from severe acute malnutrition acute at Al-Thawra Hospital, Hodeidah, Yemen, Monday 6 March 2017.

Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, addresses the Security Council meeting on the Syrian chemical weapons programme.

Developments Tuesday concerning President Donald Trump include his discussions with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying both are "ready to reach for peace"; the release of his federal budget, his current Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testifying before Congress, and his comments on the terror attack in Manchester

Min Thiya, 10, was injured two years ago in an accident while he and his friends were playing with unexploded ordnance in in Kayin State, Myanmar.

The Government of Japan has provided US$6 million for the humanitarian efforts of three United Nations agencies in Mauritania: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed continued support from the European Commission to provide assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in Djibouti.

An interpreter (right) covering the Security Council meeting, as Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria, briefs the Council via video teleconference.

Wide view of the Security Council.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that North Carolina placed too much of an emphasis on race when two congressional districts were created in 2011. The move upholds a lower court decision from February.