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Ahmed, 13, at an unaccompanied minor shelter in Trabia, Italy, on May 19, 2016.

Pupils receive lunch at Bwerangula Primary School in Kitchanga, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Displaced Iraqi women line up to receive food and water at Debaga camp for internally displaced people in Iraq’s Erbil Governorate.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening of the Second World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments, ahead of the UN Conference on Housing Sustainable Urban Development in Quito, Ecuador.

Policies must be developed to address the current decline in fertility, known as the “European demographic winter”, and curb the negative effects of population ageing, as declared on Oct. 14 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), while adopting a resolution on the basis of a report by Kristin Johnsen (Norway, EPP/CD).

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of safety experts said Belarus should complete ongoing work to ensure effective regulatory oversight of its first nuclear power plant when it starts operating later this decade.   

A perfect storm is brewing: The Damocles sword of an imminent collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system is hanging over the world, while the closely related strategic confrontation between the United States and Russia could shift at any moment from the now ongoing Cold War into a direct military confrontation—potentially the end of mankind. There is a way out, but it requires dumping geopolitics immediately, and thinking in terms of a completely new paradigm.

To mark the national day against slavery on October 18, UK International Development Secretary Priti Patel outlined an increase in support for women and girl refugees in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, and for vulnerable people at risk of trafficking on migration routes in North Africa and Europe.