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Haqmal (centre), a six year-old returnee from Pakistan loves his new school, the Ansarul-Momineen School in Pajhman, Kabul District Afghanistan.

Archaeological site of Palmyra in Syria.

Livelihood kits being delivered to hard-to-reach areas in South Sudan through FAO’s helicopter operation.

Aftermath of Boko Haram’s bombing of the Nyanya bus park in Abuja, Nigeria.

Street scene in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Germany celebrates on 3 October 25 years of reunification. After the Berlin wall fell in 1989, East and West Germany reuniting became an obvious next step. Parliament set up a special committee to look at the possible impact of this. "German reunification was, in a way, an informal form of enlargement of the European Union," said Elmar Brok, who was a committee member and is still an MEP on 2 October. He and other MEPs share with us their memories of this period.

US airstrikes hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, raising grave concerns about whether US forces took sufficient precautions to identify and avoid striking the facility, Human Rights Watch said on October 3.

Foreign Minister Damcho Dorji of Bhutan addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session.

Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra of Peru to the United Nations addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session.