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UN peacekeepers.

The European Commission has stepped up its funding to improve living conditions for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Greece, with €115 million in new funding for humanitarian organisations operating in the country. It brings total funding under the Emergency Support Instrument to €198 million.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and New Development Bank (NDB) President K.V. Kamath on September 9 signed a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions, to strengthen cooperation in addressing the world’s enormous infrastructure needs.

This weekend, the FBI joins the nation in remembering and honoring the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, which occurred 15 years ago this month.

The visiting UN Security Council delegation tours Protection of Civilian sites 1 and 3 and meets with youth, and a women's group to discuss the current situation and the way forward for the peace process.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (fifth from left) poses for a group photo with participants of the eighth summit between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations (ASEAN-UN Summit), in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

Gambian asylum seekers discuss their journey together while looking at a map on the wall at a Hot Spot, an asylum seeker reception center, in the port of Pozzallo, Sicily, Italy.

A United Nations Security Council delegation visits a 'protection of civilians' site in South Sudan on 3 September 2016.

A 2,000 strong volunteer sea rescue team, credited with saving thousands of lives during the 2015 refugee crisis, and a passionate human rights activist who provided a safe haven for thousands of the most vulnerable refugees arriving on Greek shores, are the joint 2016 winners of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)’s Nansen Refugee Award.

The Committee approved the visa waiver for Kosovo by 25 votes to 24 with 2 abstentions, and that for Georgia by 44 votes to 5.