Recovery teams with cadaver dogs pressed on with their search for more victims in a flame-ravaged northern California town on Friday as authorities sought clues to the fate of more than 1,000 people reported missing in the deadliest wildfire in state history.

The number of hungry children in West Africa's Sahel region has reached a 10-year high in 2018 due to a lack of rain, conflict and increasing food prices, a United Nations agency said on Friday.

Successive UK governments over the past decade have inflicted "great misery" on millions of Britons with "punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous" austerity policies, according to the United Nations' poverty envoy.

The man trying to broker peace in Yemen said he is hopeful a new round of talks between the warring sides will begin within weeks provided a lull in fighting for a key port city holds.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson denounced a draft resolution on the human rights situation in Iran, proposed by Canada and approved by the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, saying the biased anti-Iran document has been devised with political purposes.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a person briefed on the CIA’s assessment.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi said that US incurred irreparable damage to its credit in the international arena with its pullout from Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to take stance against the US law-breaking.

The United States has waged a drone war in Yemen for 16 years, trying to suppress al-Qaeda's branch here. But the campaign has had a hidden cost: civilians cut down by the drones' missiles.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip, but failed to reach an agreement on how to deal with a fresh wave of deadly Israeli attacks against the blockaded Palestinian territory.