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National Focal Points during a study visit to the History of Art Museum, Vienna, 11 April 2018.

A recent upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine threatens the lives and wellbeing of the civilian population and further undermines the ceasefire upon which their security and safety depend, said the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group, Martin Sajdik, and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, on April 12.

As people around the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, once again promising to "never forget" the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II, a new study shows Americans appear to be doing just that.

Azerbaijan's longtime president, Ilham Aliyev, won a fourth term Wednesday in an election boycotted by the opposition.

Election officials said they expected Aliyev to finish with 86 percent of the vote.

Refugee woman from Eritrea comforting her friend on the transfer bus at the airport in Italy.

Officials from OSCE participating States in the Western Balkans shared good practices and challenges in the issuance and examination of travel documents with their counterparts from the European Union, Schengen states and associated countries during an expert meeting in Brussels on 11 April 2018.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will never let Iran establish a military presence inside Syria.

Netanyahu made the vow during a telephone call Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On 10 April, the Kurdistan Regional Government together with the United Nations and its partners held a high-level joint conference on the priority needs in the Kurdistan Region.

Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria.

Refugees on board an Italian Coast Guard ship, which rescued them after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya. Migrants and refugees undertake a perilous sea crossing aboard rickety boats with hopes of reaching Europe, unfortunately many lose their lives along the way.