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The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, (left) and the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir. (right)

The UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution on preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is holding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "personally responsible" for the health and safety of two opposition leaders seized by police in the middle of the night.

Young people contributing to a workshop on climate change in Iguiwaz, Morocco.

On 3 April, (right) Zainab Kamara, supported by her mother, breastfeeds one of her twin sons, 3-month-old Alhassan Cargo, in Karineh Village in Magbema Chiefdom, Kambia District.

Jordanian lawmakers will decide on August 1, 2017 whether to remove or amend an infamous provision in the country’s 1960 penal code that allows people who commit sexual assault to avoid punishment if they marry their victims, Human Rights Watch said on Aug 01. Removing the article completely would be a positive step to strengthen the rule of law and end impunity for violence against women.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray as the new head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The vote was 92-5 for Wray to take over the agency, which has been at the center of controversy since the 2016 presidential campaign.

On 7 December 2013 in Lebanon, Aliya, 7, completes homework in the tent she shares with 16 family members in an informal tented settlement for Syrian refugees in Dalhamieh, a small village in the Bekaa Valley.

The food security situation of returned households to their place of origin in Pakistan’s FATA Agencies has improved significantly since 2014, according to a new report released on Jul 31.

Criminal groups feed off the instability created by conflicts, and as links between wars, trafficking and migrant smuggling become more widely known, the United Nations is calling on the international community to act now to help and protect trafficking victims and to end this crime forever.