U.S. warns South Sudan govt against "deliberate starvation tactics"
"The famine is not a result of drought, it is the result of leaders more interested in political power and personal gain than in stopping violence and allowing humanitarian access."
Five bodies found, hundreds feared dead as migrant boats sink off Libya - NGO
"We brought on board five corpses recovered from the sea, but no lives. It is a harsh reality check of the suffering here that is invisible in Europe."
Former Haitian mayor sued in Boston over human rights abuses
Former mayor accused of murdering, torturing and burning the homes of his political opponents
Bosnian, Croatian police break up migrant-smuggling ring
Smugglers part of international criminal ring which charged migrants thousands of euros to get them from Turkey to the European Union
'Worst is yet to come' with 400,000 trapped in west Mosul - UN
Hundreds of thousands trapped in Mosul, facing food shortages and growing panic under shelling that could provoke a mass exodus
Child victims of Mosul battle fill emergency hospital
"The wounds we are seeing here are the face of war - the faces of children and mothers"
Violence, corruption threaten Afghan progress in getting kids to school
More than 3.5 million children, one in three Afghan kids, will miss school at the start of the school year and the number is predicted to rise
Tillerson pledges safe areas for refugees, more pressure on Islamic State
Creating safe zones could ratchet up U.S. involvement in Syria and mark a major departure from President Obama's more cautious approach
In time of crisis, Venezuelans help the hungry
"We started this because we see people every day hunting for food in the trash, not only the homeless but people on their way to work"
Shi'ite aid convoys enter Mosul, bringing relief and suspicion
"We're not against the aid, but against people imposing their views. It's a friendly face, but the aim behind it is domination"