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The head of a major international aid agency says key Taliban officials told him they are close to finalizing guidelines that will allow Afghan women to resume working for nongovernmental organizations

A "perfect storm" of overlapping crises forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, sending the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday.

In speech after speech, world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly are spotlighting Russia’s war in Ukraine

The United Nations humanitarian agency has called for a massive scale-up in resources to save Somalia from famine.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says the world is paying too little attention to a profusion of mass displacements of people across Africa, who risk death by starvation and prolonged conflicts.

Russian military officials Colonel Maksin Vlasov and Colonel Vitaly Kovtun have slammed the failure to take the Ukraine capital in an alleged call infiltrated by Ukrainian intelligence services.

In DR Congo, the most-neglected country on list for 2nd year running, a third of the population went hungry last year.

The world is paying too little attention to a slew of mass displacements of people across Africa, risking starvation deaths and prolonging conflicts, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned in a report published Wednesday. "With the all-absorbing war in Europe's Ukraine, I fear African suffering will be pushed further into the…

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces desperately tried to block a complete Russian takeover of one of the country’s two eastern provinces Tuesday, with Russian troops clawing out incremental gains even as European leaders agreed to a partial oil embargo aimed at starving Moscow’s mammoth war machine.