World | WPN World People News

A family displaced by fighting in the village of Shora, 25 kilometres south of Mosul, Iraq, walk towards an army checkpoint on the outskirts of Qayyarah.

Gina Haspel, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, was sworn in Monday as the spy agency's first female director.

Voters in Burundi have approved changes to the constitution that could allow the president to stay in office until 2034.

The country's electoral commission said Monday that 73 percent of voters backed the changes in last Thursday's constitutional referendum.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$1 million contribution from the Kuwait Red Crescent Society that will be used to provide food assistance to Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Ministry of Forests and Environment signed an agreement that will help vulnerable communities in the Karnali region of Nepal to protect their crops and livelihoods from climate variability and extremes on May 21, 2018.

Venezuela's election board says incumbent President Nicolas Maduro has been re-elected for a second six-year term.

Sunday's election was boycotted by the opposition as the “coronation” of a dictator and condemned by much of the international community.

Discussions on protection of cultural and archeological sites at Amir Temur mausoleum, Samarkand, 16 may 2018.

The deteriorating security situation in the wider area around the Donetsk Filtration Station poses a threat to the facility, its workers and monitoring officers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), said the SMM’s Chief Monitor Ertugrul Apakan on May 18.

The town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia as seen from the air submerged in flood waters from the Shabelle river on 30 April 2018. Belet Weyne is currently experiencing its worst flooding ever and over 150,000 people have been displaced.

North Korea's top negotiator denounced the South Korean government as "ignorant and incompetent" Thursday, the latest in a series of recent inflammatory statements from Pyongyang after it suddenly canceled talks with its southern neighbor amid U.S.-South Korean combat drills.