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Nora HouguenadeH.E. Mr François Hollande, President of France, participates in the Organization's Leaders' Forum - UNESCO, 17 November 2015.

The death of 224 passengers on a downed Russian jet was an abhorrent act of mass killing. Russia’s Federal Security Service said on November 17, 2015, that the October 31 crash of a Russian jet over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, was the result of a bomb placed on board. The crash was the worst in the history of Russian civilian aviation.

A volunteer on the Greek Island of Lesvos gathers a baby girl in her arms, moments after her family arrived in an inflatable boat.

16-20 November 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban meet with families of refugees at the Centre Tenda Di Abramo in Rome.

Tesreen Camp, Aleppo, Syria.

Members of Samaritan's Purse, a UNHCR partner on the island of Lesvos, install a drainage pipe at a sanitation facility.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey,on 15 November 2015.

Road traffic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Meeting in Vienna on November 14, 2015 as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), the Arab League, China, Egypt, the EU, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the United States to discuss how to accelerate an end to the Syrian conflict. The participants began with a moment of silence for the victims of the heinous terrorist attacks of November 13 in Paris and the recent attacks in Beirut, Iraq, Ankara, and Egypt. The members unanimously condemned in the strongest terms these brutal attacks against innocent civilians and stood with the people of France.