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Billboards displaying a variety of advertisements along a street in Mogadishu, capital of the Horn of Africa nation Somalia.

An OSCE-supported five-day training course on presentation skills for instructors of the National Security Committee’s Border Guard Service and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) concluded on 17 February 2017 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

BRUNSWICK, Maine - A CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 lands in snow during Exercise Frigid Condor near Brunswick, Maine, Jan. 22, 2017. HMH-464 conducted the exercise to increase the squadron’s operational readiness in extreme conditions. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is investigating ways to potentially detect supercooled liquid clouds from the air, which can cause hazardous icing conditions for aircraft.

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (Ceta) received Parliament’s backing on Wednesday and the next day the country's prime minister addressed MEPs. “With Ceta, together we have built something important. Especially at this moment, on your continent and mine," Trudeau said. He added: "Europe is a vital player in addressing the challenges we face as an international community."

President Donald Trump has launched a deadly serious War on Drugs. On Feb. 8, in a speech before the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association (MCCA) in Washington, the President said that the drug scourge was destroying the potential of America’s youth and America’s future, and must be crushed, naming the newly installed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Gen (ret.) John Kelly, as the man to lead the effort.

Federica Mogherini held on 17 Feb. a series of bilateral meetings in the margins of the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bonn and of the Munich Security Conference.

The government of Bangladesh and the World Bank on February 19 launched a cash benefits program for 600,000 of the country’s poorest mothers and pregnant women in exchange for their participation in activities to improve their children's nutrition and cognitive development. The World Bank has committed $300 million for the program, which will benefit over one million children.

With the approval of the government of Iraq, Coalition forces struck an ISIS command and control headquarters and propaganda facility Feb. 17 in western Mosul, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported.

Secretary-General António Guterres.

Children look over the wall on the roof of their house at clouds of smoke from oil wells which were set on fire by ISIL when they fled Qayyarah, a town south of Mosul.