24 December 2016
Concluding the main part of its 71st session, the United Nations General Assembly last night adopted 15 texts – 14 resolutions and one decision – recommended by its Fifth Committee which is responsible for administration and budgetary matters.
Photo:Humanitarian partners in Somalia are scaling up response to displaced people after violence broke out in Gaalkacyo on 7 October 2016.
Photo:Al-Jawiyyah prison in Misrata, northwest Libya.
Photo:Street scene in Mexico.
Photo:Security forces standby in Kinshasa during demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 19 and 20 December 2016.
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:Displaced Aleppo, Syria, residents wait in line to receive food distributed by the World Food Programme.
Photo:UN vehicles travel along a road lined with remnants of destroyed buildings, Homs, Syria. (file)
