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Thirteen refugees from Syria and Iraq, including six children, arrived safely in Lisbon on Wednesday (03/04) after leaving Istanbul, Turkey as part of a Portuguese refugee resettlement programme for 2018-2019, supported by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and IOM, the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced new sanctions Friday on 34 vessels of Venezuela's state oil company and two companies that ship crude oil to Cuba.

U.S. President Donald Trump has visited the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station, a crossing point between the United States and Mexico.

Boeing admitted Thursday that a faulty sensor in its anti-stall system played a part in last month's deadly Ethiopian plane crash.

Ethiopian investigators released their preliminary report into the disaster that killed 157 people, saying the anti-stall system kept pushing the nose of the plane downward shortly after takeoff as the pilots struggled to take control.

Does your business source cotton products from Turkey? Or maybe you have been buying clothes with ‘Made in Turkey’ tag? I have bad news for you: you may be inadvertently supporting a massive scale system of forced labour.

In a situation of human mobility, hundreds of Venezuelans wait in line at the Rumichaca border of Ecuador with Colombia to seal their passport and continue their journeys.

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and UNICEF signed a communique to announce their intent to develop a Global Muslim Philanthropy Fund for Children on April 03, 2019.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Egypt’s FM Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, as part of his two-day visit to Egypt.

On 21 March 2019 in Mozambique, Helcio Filipe Antonio holds a boy named Anderson Tackdi the Samora Michel High School in Beira. The Samora Michelle High School is one of the places used as a living space for people from Buzi, Mozambique that has been displaced by the floods caused by Cyclone Idai.

With the rights and lives of millions of women, children and men uprooted by conflict every year, the UN Security Council held a special meeting on Monday to examine ways to promote and strengthen the rule of law, especially in the humanitarian field.