Photo:Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) addresses the Financing for Peace event at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings. At second left is the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim.
Politics
Photo:Returned persons from Kasala village, Kasaï Province, awaiting food distribution by the NGO COPROMOR and Christian Aid.
UNICEF calls for action to prevent more deaths in Central Mediterranean as attempted crossings spike
Photo:Risking their lives to reach Europe from North Africa, a boatload of people, some of them likely in need of international protection, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian Navy.
Photo:On 24 August 2016, two children walk arm in arm down a war damaged street in Aleppo, Syria.
Photo:A family displaced by fighting between ISIS and Iraqi security forces carry their belongings as they walk through the destroyed western neighbourhood of Al Mamum, near Mosul, Iraq.
Photo:Demonstrators clash with riot police during the so-called "mother of all marches" against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela April 19, 2017.
Photo:Women in Ganyiel, Unity state, South Sudan, collecting bags of food. The situation in Ganyiel is dire, with thousands of people having fled to the area from famine-stricken Leer and Mayendit counties.
Photo:Electrical power transmission lines in Gaza City.
Photo:Li Ching-yu (C), the wife of Taiwanese human rights activist Li Ming-che, detained in China, attends a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan on March 31, 2017.
Photo:A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Ankara during the referendum, April 16, 2017