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Hundreds of African migrants are dead or missing in the Mediterranean Sea, after a disabled boat carrying an estimated 500 people to a hoped-for better life in Europe caught fire and sank off an Italian island.

More funds are urgently needed to continue critical humanitarian assistance for more than 1 million temporarily displaced people across north-western Pakistan due to insecurity since 2008, the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Pakistan Timo Pakkala said during a joint UN-Government mission to Kohat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Pakistani officials say a Taliban suicide bomber has attacked the compound of a rival militia group and killed at least 13 people.

The partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government means there is no money for foreign military assistance, delaying support for long-time allies like Israel.

“UNICEF is appalled by the reported deaths of at least 12 children in an air attack on a secondary school in Raqqa, north east Syria, on 29 September.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon (OPCW) Ahmet Üzümcü

The United States and South Korea have signed an agreement meant to provide greater deterrence against North Korea's nuclear weapons.

John Ashe, President of the 68th General Assembly, addresses the closing of the General Debate.

Schools burned by Boko Haram in 2013 in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.

A year after South Sudan and Sudan signed nine agreements aimed at solidifying the fragile peace between the two countries, little progress has been made on implementing the pacts, with a key issue, the status of the territory of Abyei, still up in the air, the foreign ministers of both nations told Voice of America.