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On March 29, 2015, PACE President Anne Brasseur took part in the international march against terrorism in Tunis. Anne Brasseur marched alongside with the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, French President François Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and many other international political leaders who came to Tunis to express solidarity and strong support to living-together in a free and pluralist society.

The global shift toward a new world economic order based on building physical economy, not financial bubbles, made stunning progress last week, as, first Great Britain, and then five other European nations applied to become founding members of the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). As of this writing, 34 nations have applied to be part of the institution, which the Chinese have declared will be capitalized at the level of $100 billion and dedicated to funding major infrastructure projects in Asia and elsewhere. The deadline to become a founding member is March 31.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressing the opening of the 26th Summit of the League of Arab States in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Damage caused by fighting in Abyan Governorate, southern Yemen.

Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey in the boat's cramped cargo space.

Children in South Sudan.

Plane Plummetted into remote area of the French Alps en route from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany

The 18 March terrorist attacks on the Tunis Bardo museum were clearly directed against Tunisia’s transition to democracy, as the “lone success story of the ‘Arab Spring’”, said MEPs in a debate with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday evening. All speakers insisted on the need to maintain or beef up EU support for Tunisia, so to in encourage it to pursue its democratic transition and not be intimidated by attempts to cause anarchy and chaos.

A minute of silence to commemorate the victims on the Germanwings flight at the opening of the Inter-religious dialogue event held in the European Parliament.

Children at the Radfan Basic School in Al-Shaikh Othman district, Aden, Yemen.