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The entire global strategic situation can be summed up in two essential facts. First, Wall Street is disintegrating and the entire U.S. economy is about to vanish, unless immediate action is taken. Second, President Barack Obama is moving in the direction of launching thermonuclear war against Russia. He is seeking an element of surprise, trying to outguess the Russians.

Returning Afghan refugees pose for one last memorable photo at the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centre in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Refugee or Migrant – word choice matters.

A Parliament delegation visited reception centres for asylum seekers in Sicily

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan at the signing ceremony in the country's capital, Juba.

Families evacuated from East Ghouta, Syria, congregate in the courtyard of the Dahit Qudsayya collective shelter for basic aid.

A Syrian refugee walks over a bridge of rubbish and sewage which is choking a canal that abuts a settlement of Syrian refugees living on rented land in the fields outside of Zahle, Lebanon.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres (right) greets French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (left).

Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Léon (shown on screen), briefs the Security Council.

Influx of refugees from FYR Macedonia to Serbia includes exhausted mothers with children resting in any kind of shade they can spot.