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Palestinian militants resumed firing rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip early Friday, as a three-day cease-fire officially expired.

When the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, it marked the beginning of the age of nuclear weapons. Although the development and deployment of these weapons peaked during the Cold War, large arsenals still exist in the United States and Russia - and are on a a heightened state of alert. Recent scandals involving those responsible for handling nuclear weapons in the U.S. military have renewed debate about the risk, and the need, for such weapons.

Members of an ethnic Yezidi family sleep in the shade in Shekhadi village, Iraq, after fleeing Sinjar.

Inside the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as guilty verdicts are handed down in the trial of Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.

Over the last 16 years, according to U.S. government records, more than 6,000 people have died after crossing the U.S. border illegally from Mexico and finding themselves in a dangerous environment. Yet illegal immigrants, mostly from Central America, continue to cross the border in south Texas, where temperatures are soaring.

A violent day in Iraq Wednesday left more than 100 people dead, including civilians and Islamic extremist fighters.

Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet briefs the Security Council on the situation in South Sudan.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

A fragile, 72-hour cease-fire in the Gaza Strip held for a second day on Wednesday, as Israel and Hamas delegates prepare for talks in Cairo aimed at extending the truce.

The reported deaths of 40 children from minority groups who were displaced from Sinjar city and district by armed violence are of extreme concern.