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The Governing Council of the European Central Bank welcomes the European Commission’s intention to introduce further legislation regulating systemically important reference rates. In its response to the Commission’s consultation on the regulation of indices, the Eurosystem has called for the regulation of systemically important reference rates, with a view to enhancing the governance of all key processes surrounding the rate-setting calculation and increasing market’s confidence in the rates.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) called for greater dialogue and co-operation among Mediterranean States at a seminar today on human trafficking in the region.

Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) should stop arbitrarily detaining journalists, activists, and political opposition figures, and end its prosecution of journalists for insulting or defaming public figures. The Asayish – the Kurdistan Security Agency – and police arrested without warrants journalists and others who published articles criticizing public officials, and detained them without charge or trial for periods ranging from several weeks to a year.

Tanker trucks supply water to a housing complex in Adra, an industrial area northeast of Damascus, Syria.

In response to the release of a Justice Department white paper titled, “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force,” the Center for Constitutional Rights made the statements below. Also, the Center for Constitutional Rights will be filing a brief with the ACLU arguing against current and former administration officials’ attempt to keep out of court a case challenging the targeted killing of three American citizens, one of whom is the subject of this white paper.

Displaced people in northern Mindanao, first affected by armed conflict, then uprooted by Tropical Storm Washi in late 2011.

A young boy works as a labourer near Kathmandu, Nepal.

At age one, Fatima was subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in her village in Afar Region of Ethiopia which has one of the world’s highest prevalence rates.

Women and children wait for assistance from the drought/famine in Dolo, southern Somalia.

A view of Ankaka, the Turkish capital, 11 August 2009.