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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with President Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia, at the Presidential Palace in Carthage, Tunisia.

In Jordan’s Zaatari camp, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks with young refugees. 27 March, 2016. UN

The March 5-16 annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislature, met at a most crucial moment in world history, as the failed trans-Atlantic system careened towards a near-term all-out economic collapse, while the flag of world leadership has been earned and won by a Eurasia-centered combination, spreading outwards from the China-Russia alliance, to India and the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) nations and the other powers of Eurasia.

China’s first female astronaut, Liu Yang, gave a powerful interview after the National People’s Congress on the prospects for China’s space program. Here she is shown (right) with EIR’s William Jones and Marsha Freeman at the Naples International Astronautical Congress in 2012.

In Baghdad, (from left to right) the President of the Islamic Development Bank, Ahmed Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, Haider Al-Abadi, arrive at a press conference. 26 March, 2016.

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced that he will create new DA posts and associated Defence Sections in Finland, Senegal (also covering the Sahel region) and Albania, as well as new Deputy DA roles in Qatar, Afghanistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia.

Female Peshmerga troops receive training from British Army personnel in Northern Iraq

Palestinian-Syrian hairdresser Momena attends to a client at her small salon in Damascus.

Yemeni refugee Abdillahi Bashraheel stands at the entrance to his "museum of curiosities" at Markazi Camp in Djibouti.