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Special Representative Hilde Johnson (on monitors) holds a video news conference from Juba, South Sudan.

Thai-Japan Youth Sports Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand

South Sudan’s government says a meeting with regional leaders has helped move forward plans for a dialogue between the president and his political rival to end the violence that has divided the country. The development comes as a humanitarian crisis continues to deepen in the young nation.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a controversial visit to a war shrine that many of Japan's neighbors see as a symbol of its militaristic past.

Heavy gunfire rocked the capital of the Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing as many as nine people.

Thailand's political crisis again turned violent Thursday, as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government protesters trying to disrupt preparations for an upcoming election.

Egyptians protest in Cairo in July 2013.

Civilians taking refuge at UNMISS compound in Juba.

Security Council members voting to authorize almost doubling the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan to nearly 14,000.