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Russia's top election official has lashed out at U.S. State Department criticism that in the recent presidential election, Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) denied observer status to 4,500 monitors linked to anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, along with 850 others with ties to Golos, the independent Moscow-based election watchdog.

As heavy rains and potential cyclones threaten more than one hundred thousand Rohingya refugees living in congested settlements in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, United Nations refugee agency envoy Cate Blanchett is urging increased international support to protect them from the worst impacts of the upcoming monsoon season.

Children reading a panegyric during a festival in Timbuktu, Mali.

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.