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Refugees and migrants rescued at sea by the Italian Coastguard ship Bettica arrive at Port Augusta. On the boat are four separate groups of people who were rescued. Many are women and children.

Nearly 150 students were massacred on 2 April at the Garissa university campus in Kenya, the latest in a series of atrocities perpetrated against Christians by the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab terrorist group. MEPs condemned the killings in the harshest of terms during a debate on 29 April, demanding that the EU supports Kenya in its efforts to combat extremists. On 30 April, MEPs will vote on a resolution on the persecution of Christians around the world.

Some of the damage in Kathmandu Valley caused by the devastating earthquake which rocked Nepal.

UNICEF’s first airlift of urgent medical and other supplies being unloaded on the tarmac at Sana’a International Airport on 10 April, 2015.

Young women and girls carry water in Nigeria.

Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles.

Salma Hayek during a recent trip to Lebanon where she visited with Syrian refugee children.

A UNICEF worker speaks to a child seeking temporary shelter in Kathmandu following Nepal's massive earthquake.

The unit 4 reactor and shelter which was damaged in an accident at Chernobyl in 1986.

Martin Schulz