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Birth registration for indigenous children takes place in the Republic of Congo, where they suffer disproportionately from the lack of nutritious food and health services.

The UK is stepping-up its work to investigate cases of international corruption affecting developing countries through a new specialist unit launched by International Development Secretary Justine Greening.

Almost 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the UN refugee agency says.

The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, later preserved as a monument - known as the Genbaku Dome - at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

Syrian refugees crowd around an office in Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Members of a family sit outside their simple home in northern Afghanistan's Faryab province.

Special Representative and head of the UN peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSCA Babacar Gaye (left) encourages ex-combatants to join the road to peace in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Somali refugees board a plane to return to Mogadishu from Dadaab camp in Kenya.

A refugee from Yemen hides from the scorching sun in Obock, northern Djibouti. Obock has become a safe haven for hundreds of people fleeing increasingly violent conflict in Yemen.

US President Barack Obama (left) greets Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his arrival at the White House.