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The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator a.i. for South Sudan, Adnan Khan, has strongly condemned attacks on aid workers and facilities in Bunj, Maban County in Upper Nile.

A former senior security aide for French President Emmanuel Macron is insisting he was trying to help police when he was caught on video assaulting a protester at a May Day demonstration.

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to "never threaten the United States," in a Twitter comment that came shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a speech critical of Iran's leaders.

The United States is expressing deep concern about the direction of the peace process in South Sudan, saying President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar "have not demonstrated the leadership required to bring genuine peace and accountable governance" to the nation.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday 21 July welcomed an historic donation of 33,000 metric tons of rice from the Government of the Republic of Korea. This donation will enable WFP to provide food assistance to more than 1.5 million people, mostly refugees, living in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Families from rural Quneitra are displaced, seeking shelter in open areas and camps. An estimated 140,000 people remain displaced across south-west Syria, in need of safe passage out of the area.

Jamie McGoldrick, second from left, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, visits a patient at the Al Quds Hospital in Gaza.

The Port of Salvador in All Saints Bay, Bahia, handles both cargo and cruise ships.

Asylum-seekers and migrants aboard a dinghy in international waters off the coast of Libya in November 2016.

Facebook says it will begin removing false information from its site that could lead to violence.

“There are certain forms of misinformation that have contributed to physical harm” in certain countries, the U.S. social media giant said in a statement Wednesday announcing the policy.