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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Security Council meets on the situation in Iraq.

An unexploded bomb on the way to Tabit from Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur.

The European Union has imposed fresh sanctions on Ukrainian separatists, but is holding back on new sanctions against Russia. Decision by EU foreign ministers taken amid deepening tensions between the West and Russia.

France said one of its citizens is among the Islamic State militants who participated in killing American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

Children from Cape Town, South Africa in the 1980s, when inter-racial marriage was illegal in the country

U.S. officials have confirmed the death of American hostage Abdul-Rahman Kassig in what President Barack Obama called "an act of pure evil" by Islamic State militants.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. military is accelerating its training and advising mission in Iraq as forces there continue to battle Islamic State militants.

A group of Tawerghan men displaced after the fighting in Libya in 2011. UNHCR is concerned about the situation of some 2,500 Tawerghans who fled their camp in Benghazi in mid-October 2014 to escape fighting.