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A group of asylum seekers break the trek to rest at Tovarnik train station in Croatia.

MEPs held a minute’s silence for terror victims everywhere, including Mali, Syria and Iraq.

Schools and daycare centres in Belgium's capital Brussels remained closed on November 23 (Tuesday), as the federal government upheld the highest security threat level in the city.

Climate-related disasters like flooding are on the rise.

A woman and her baby amid debris and other destruction caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Israeli forces and a newly installed metal detector on the corner of Al Wad Street, in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Mongolia’s rapid economic and social development, fuelled by the discovery of significant mineral resources, has exacerbated governance and corruption challenges. To address this, a new OECD report says that Mongolia should complete the reform of its anti-corruption legislation, strengthen enforcement and make the prevention of political corruption a priority.

On Jan. 7, 2015, just hours after terrorists staged an assault on the Paris offices of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, former U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.) joined House of Representatives Members Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and representatives of the 9/11 families, in a Capitol Hill press conference, convened to demand the immediate release of the 28-page chapter from the original 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, which documented the role of the Saudi Royal Family in financing the hijackers.

The United Nations Security Council this evening called on all countries that can do so to take the war on terrorism to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and destroy its safe haven, warning that the group intends to mount further terror attacks like those that devastated Paris and Beirut last week.

Bhutanese refugee Devi Maya Thapa (second left) sits on a bench with her family at a refugee camp in Nepal. She is the 100,000th Bhutanese refugee to be resettled.