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The UN has reiterated its call for the safety and protection of local aid workers inside Syria, who remain on the frontline in delivering life-saving assistance to millions of women, children and men in all areas.

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger (r) and Karin Kneissl, Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna, 30 July 2018.

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger (r) and Karin Kneissl, Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna, 30 July 2018.

Effective policies to combat trafficking in human beings, including the trafficking of children, must focus on both the effects and the roots of this terrible crime, OSCE senior officials said on July 30, on the occasion of the World Day against Trafficking in Persons.

The wildfire burning almost unchecked in Northern California has claimed it's sixth victim.

At a news conference Sunday, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said the victim, who was not identified, didn't evacuate despite receiving an evacuation warning. Other victims included two children and two firefighters.

Officials in Mali are counting the votes from Sunday's presidential election, marred by violence, rocket attacks, threats and suspected fake polling places.

A man and his sons travel to collect water underneath the Hajjah Road Bridge, in Hodeidah, Yemen, which was damaged in an airstrike in mid-2016.

Trump’s migration policies make people more vulnerable to trafficking.

The court-ordered deadline has passed for U.S. officials to reunite all eligible children who were separated from their parents after entering the country.

A U.S. military plane brought back 55 cases of remains North Korea says are of U.S. service members killed in the Korean War more than six decades ago, the White House confirmed in a statement late Thursday.

U.S. officials say they expect to reunite all eligible children who had been separated from their parents after entering the country illegally by Thursday’s court-ordered deadline (0700 UTC Friday).