Photo:UN refugee agency (UNHCR) staff receive survivors at the dock of the Sicilian port of Messina, Sicily.
Politics
Photo:Wu Hongbo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, second from left, addresses members of the media at the UN World Data Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, on 15 January.
Photo:The visiting UN Security Council delegation tours Protection of Civilian sites 1 and 3 and discusses the current situation and the way forward for the peace process in September 2016.
January 13, 2017
John Todd Williams, the owner of a debt collection company based in Georgia, used illegal and aggressive tactics to squeeze millions of dollars from thousands of victims. Now Williams is paying his own debt—to society—in the form of a five-year prison sentence.
Jan. 13, 2017
About one in five people in the United States who bought a gun in any setting in the past two years did so without a background check, new research finds.
Photo:UNFPA, with its partner the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, distributes hygiene kits in Aleppo during a recent assessment mission.
Photo:The International Organization for Migration (IOM) distributes non-food aide in Gogjiali, Iraq, which has turned into a hub to where Iraqis escaping Mosul arrive.
Photo:Children outside refugee tents on 8 March 2016, in Idomeni, Greece.
Photo:A youngster walks onto the beach during outing from a reception centre that doubles as a lodging station for unaccompanied minors in Pozzallo, Sicily.
Syria ceasefire holding amid rising concerns about aid delivery and Damascus water supply – UN envoy
Photo:UNICEF-supported trucks queue to fill their tanks with water from a group of wells rehabilitated and equipped by UNICEF, Damascus, Syria.