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On 19 March 2018, the Council added 4 persons to the list of those targeted by EU restrictive measures against the Syrian regime. The EU added these 4 persons for their role in the development and use of chemical weapons against the civilian population, in line with the EU's policy to fight the proliferation and use of chemical weapons.

A polling station official assisting a voter in casting her ballot at an electronic ballot box in Moscow during the presidential election in Russia, 18 March 2018.

A new survey shows that Americans are still divided about whether the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the correct action.

Fifteen years after the war began, nearly half of Americans — 48 percent — say the decision to use military force was wrong, while slightly fewer — 43 percent — say the decision was the correct course of action, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

On 15 March 2018 in Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta. families walk towards Hamourieh where an evacuation exit from Eastern Ghouta has been opened.

The Laghman River, one of Afghanistan’s many waterways, is essential to agriculture and other development in this largely rural eastern province.

On 11 September 2017, Jaequon Brooks, 10, and Nequan sit outdoors on part of a fallen and cut-up tree, in South Hill District, on the island of Anguilla – which was hard hit during Hurricane Irma.

A self-driving car has hit and killed a woman in the southwestern United States in what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the new technology.

Rohingya refugees build a shelter at a settlement in Bangladesh.

Syrian Kurds are threatening a new stepped-up guerilla war after Turkish forces and their Syrian allies took control of the northern Syrian town of Afrin, a Kurdish enclave.