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Leading US economist and UN special adviser Jeffrey Sachs has warned that White House military policy and powerful business interests, as well as President Donald Trump's dangerous rhetoric, are hindering international efforts to address global challenges.

More than 150 million children, or nearly one in 10 globally, are victims of forced labor and progress in reducing that number has slowed, a leading United Nations' anti-slavery group said on Sept. 19.

Terrified Iraqi families fleeing fierce fighting in Mosul are drugging their children with sedatives or taping their mouths shut to prevent their cries alerting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants as they try to escape, as Iraqi forces prepare a fresh push against the jihadists using new tactics

Valgerour Halla came into the world under unusual circumstances. The 4-month-old was born in Reykjavik to Syrian asylum seekers who were so thankful they gave her an Icelandic name.

Dozens of migrants are at risk of freezing to death in Europe after heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures hit Greece and the Balkans, aid agencies said on Jan. 11. 

Central and southeastern Europe have been gripped by freezing weather and snowstorms for days, with night-time temperatures dropping below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) in some areas. 

Wonder Woman's battle for equality for women and girls at the United Nations has come to a untimely end. 
The scantily clad, curvaceous comic book superhero has had her appointment as a United Nations honorary ambassador cut in less than two months following protests, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported on Dec. 13. 

European cities are joining forces to tackle challenges arising from the continent's refugee crisis, in an initiative launched this week in Athens, through which hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have passed since the start of 2015.

Child brides in Turkey are often raped, beaten and forced to undergo virginity tests, according to Eylem Atakav, the director of a new documentary which aims to break the silence on the taboo issue. 

"Growing Up Married," due to premiere in London on Oct. 30, examines the impact of child marriage on four women who were forced to marry at a young age in western Turkey. 

Turkey ranked as having the worst environment for social entrepreneurs, scoring poorly in most of 12 indicators used to measure political, economic, regulatory and cultural factors, according to Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of almost 900 social enterprise experts in the world's 45 biggest economies. 
Ireland and Venezuela also fared badly. 

After losing his leg in Syria's civil war and escaping his native land, Ibrahim Al Hussein never imagined he would be competing with the world's top disabled athletes in Brazil as one of two members of the first refugee team in the Paralympics.

A swimmer in Syria before the war, coached by his father, he fled first to Turkey and then onto Europe after losing one of his legs in 2013.