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The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered more than 21 tonnes of critical life-saving medicines and medical/surgical supplies to Yemen.

More women and children have been used as suicide bombers in Northeast Nigeria in the first five months of this year than during the whole of last year, according to reports collated by UNICEF.

Refugees and migrants risk their lives travelling from Africa to Europe in over-crowded and unseaworthy vessels to escape persecution and violence or simply to find a better life.

UNHCR is trucking in clean water as one of the responses to the cholera outbreak in the Kagunga area of Tanzania.

The UN refugee agency and its partners are preparing aid for some 11,000 people who fled the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra and surrounding villages when they were overrun by militant forces this week.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The police in Bujumbura, Burundi, have increasingly broken up opposition party gatherings.

One month after the first of two major earthquakes hit Nepal, an estimated 70,000 children under five are at risk of malnutrition and require urgent humanitarian support - according to UNICEF.

Noted investigative journalist Seymour Hersh just penned a ten thousand-word exposé of the Obama Administration’s fraudulent account of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Obama and his White House coterie of spin-meisters have just suffered another serious blow. Beyond that, the Hersh revelations have once again shined a spotlight on the prominent role of the Saudi monarchy in promoting and protecting international jihadist terrorism.

An atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 1 November 1952.