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Gernot Erler, the German government coordinator for Russia, ended an otherwise standard speech last week, which was otherwise devoted to papering over tensions in Berlin over continuing sanctions and conflict with Russia, with a stark warning that funds from the West should not flow into financing Kiev’s military attack on eastern Ukraine.

Following the attacks in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket and in Montrouge, what conclusions can we draw? What might our lines of enquiry be in terms of measures to be taken at governmental and legislative level and what kind of action might we contemplate taking in schools, prisons and problem neighbourhoods? Is secularism still a bastion against fundamentalism?

A European-wide debt conference similar to the conference that led to the London Debt Agreement of 1953 that settled the foreign debts of Germany has been proposed by both the Greek Syriza Party and the Independent Greeks, and has been making headlines in the European media.

Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Léon.

Following the Paris attacks the secretary-general of the Arab League has urged greater cooperation between it and the EU to counter extremism. Addressing Parliament's foreign affairs committee on 20 January Nabil El Araby said "the problems we face now are of universal character and are not confined to one place." He outlined how the Arab world looks upon Europe and said that "the European Union has been to the forefront of all just causes."

A wide view of the special event on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.

Children in the Khanke Camp near Dohuk city, Iraq, which mainly houses Yazidis fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Children at a primary school in the town of Toro, Bauchi State, Nigeria.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened an election observation mission (EOM) for the 1 March parliamentary elections in the Republic of Tajikistan on January 20. The mission’s deployment follows an official invitation from the Tajikistan authorities.