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The increased threat of terrorism and a flood of illegal firearms into Australia have prompted the government to offer its first national gun amnesty since a massacre at a former penal colony more than 20 years ago. In 1996, 35 people were killed by a lone gunman at Port Arthur in Tasmania. That tragedy prompted tough gun control measures.

The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returns to Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, following a collision with a merchant vessel in the Philippine Sea while operating about 64 miles southwest of Yokosuka, June 17, 2017.

Senegalese UNPOL Officers patrol the streets of Gao, Mali.

On 1 February 2017, following intense fighting in Avdiivka, Dasha, 1.5 year old, is held by her mother outside a heated emergency shelter in Avdiivka.

On 3 June 2017 in the makeshift camp at Ain Issa, 50 km north of the Raqqa in the Syrian Arab Republic, a boy carries a jerrycan filled with water.

The wife of the man who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others at a baseball field outside Washington Wednesday said she saw no signs that her husband was planning any violence when he told her he was traveling to the nation’s capital earlier this year.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has phased out its emergency operation in Swaziland, after helping up to 230,000 people through drought over the past year. The close of the operation – carried out in support of the Government’s national response – coincided with the end of the lean season last month.

A midwife provides a regular health check for a pregnant woman in Tone Le Village, Tone Le Sub Centre, Nyaung Shwe Township, Shan State, Myanmar.

Walid Mechrhale, 14, stands outside the Alkadia youth centre, in the city of Turin, Piedmont Region, Italy.

Peter Thomson (left), President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly. At his side is Movses Abelian, Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.