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The Government of Hungary and UNICEF announced that they have agreed in principle to establish UNICEF’s first-ever Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest on 10 February. The new centre will conduct a broad range of UNICEF’s financial and human resources operations worldwide, enabling the children’s organization to realize greater efficiencies and cost savings.

A young boy surrounded by adults after being rescued in June 2014 from a boat on the Mediterranean Sea.

A girl looks out of her house window in Benghazi, Libya.

The Greek people gave Syriza and the Independent Greeks an overwhelming mandate in the July 25 elections to say "ochi" ("no") to their foreign oppressors. The performance of the new government, led by these two parties, in its first week in office, demonstrates that it is fulfilling expectations—much to the consternation of the Euro-fanatics bent on saving their dying financial system.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute and chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo), warned on Jan. 27 of the dramatically escalating danger of nuclear war between the West and Russia, as a result of the ongoing collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system. The forces that want to maintain this bankrupt system at any cost are the same ones that are behind the war-mongering, she said.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Timothy Lawson prepares to change a filter on meteorological equipment used to predict impending precipitation at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2015.

Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos (right) and UNESCO Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker addressing the press in Juba, South Sudan.

Some 16,600 children are registered as having lost one or both parents, or their primary caregivers to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but less than 3 per cent have had to be placed outside family or community care, UNICEF said on 6 February.

Participants at the Libya dialogue, Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 27 January 2015.

A child sips on therapeutic milk at a hospital in Juba, South Sudan, where nearly one million children are suffering from acute malnutrition.