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President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Saber Chowdhury (right) with women speakers of parliament, who attended the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament at UN Headquarters.

Last weekend a convoy of 13 trucks successfully passed the cross line in Eastern Ukraine and arrived at Gorlovka.

“The destruction of Palmyra constitutes an intolerable crime against civilization but 4,500 years of history will never be erased,” the Director-General declared.

The number of women and children fleeing violence in their countries of origin and passing through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia seeking refuge in Europe has tripled in the past three months, UNICEF said on September 1.

This building in Yemen was destroyed by airstrikes.

Togolese refugee Paul Gbedji -- a civil engineer – has built a new life in Liberia after losing entire family in post-election violence

MEPs have a busy week ahead of them

A group of Afghans recently arrive on the island of Lesbos after travelling in an inflatable raft from Turkey to Greece. More than 300,000 refugees and migrants have used the dangerous sea route across the Mediterranean so far this year.

A 60-year-old South Sudanese woman Asunta has her identity verified by UNHCR staff before collecting a package of non-food items at the Maridi distribution centre in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state.

A three-week advanced training course on effective use of dogs in countering transnational threats to the country’s security concluded on 28 August in Almaty.