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The UN refugee agency has facilitated the return of over 50,000 registered Afghan refugees from Pakistan so far this year under the agency's largest and longest running voluntary repatriation programme.

A young boy in a UNICEF-supported camp for children formerly associated with the anti-Balaka rebel group, in Central African Republic. He was released with more than 300 children in mid-May.

UK Business Secretary has launched an investigation into abuse of tipping, as part of the government’s commitment to making sure everyone is paid fairly.

A girl waits with her mother to get hygienic supplies after leaving their home near Donetsk airport, Ukraine, to escape shelling.

Women hold pictures of relatives who went missing during Lebanon's civil war, which took place from 1975 to 1990, during a protest demanding the government publish any information they have on those who went missing, in front of the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon on September 18, 2014.

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published a Country of Origin Information (COI) report entitled ‘Pakistan Country Overview’. The report provides both general background information and more detailed information on topics relevant for international protection status determination in regard to Pakistani asylum seekers.

Wide view of the Security Council.

Lebanese authorities should take immediate measures to ensure that there is no repeat of violence against protestors in downtown Beirut and that perpetrators of violent attacks are held accountable, Human Rights Watch said on August 27.

More gruesome details will undoubtedly emerge, but we already know enough to be horrified: Up to 50 people died in what were surely agonizing deaths, locked in a truck parked on an Austrian highway, leading to Vienna.

A newsstand displays the day’s papers on October 1, 2014, including headline coverage of a pre-trial hearing then underway in a case before the International Criminal Court stemming from Cote d’Ivoire’s 2010-2011 post-election violence.