Topic: Melissa Fleming

An 18-year-old Saudi Arabia woman fleeing from who she says are abusive parents is holed up at a Thailand airport waiting to meet with United Nations officials.

"Girls" creator Lena Dunham will adapt the Melissa Fleming book "A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea" for Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams.

The Islamic State's commander in Fallujah was among 70 militants killed in an airstrike, the U.S. military announced.

EU interior ministers approved a plan that brought fierce debate over the relocation of about 120,000 migrants through mandatory quotas across the continent.

The U.S. is providing emergency airlifts to transport winter aid packages to 150,000 people displaced in northern Iraq.

The U.N. warned Tuesday that a funding shortfall could leave up to 1 million internally displaced people in Iraq and Syria out in the cold this winter.

The United Nations has marked a grim milestone, announcing the deadliest week for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe.

With neighboring countries starting to suffer from fighting in Central African Republic, a U.N. delegate said it's time the world paid attention to the crisis.

Britain must quickly accept Syrian refugees, Britain's top refugee group said, as London said it planned to let hundreds of vulnerable Syrians into the country.

South Sudanese civilians are fleeing the violence by crossing the border to neighboring Uganda at a rate of 2,500 people per day, the U.N. refugee agency said.