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Internally displaced people from Malakal UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site gather on the outskirts of the UN base with their only belongings after their shelters were burned down in an outburst of violence on Wednesday 17 February.

MEPs will give their views on how best to prevent weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and keep track of cross-border arms transfers in the Internal Market Committee’s kick-off debate on the revision of the EU firearms directive on Tuesday at 9.00. Concerns over the impact that the proposal would have on sport shooters, hunters, collectors, museums and other lawful activities are also among the issues to be discussed by MEPs.

Greek volunteer life-guards help a young child out of a boat that reached the shores of Lesbos, having crossed the Aegean sea from Turkey.

Fatime kisses her 5-year-old daughter Zarah, on the shores of Lesbos. Both are refugees from the city of Herat, Afghanistan.

U.S. attorneys representing fourteen former and one current board member of the Olympia Food Co-op urged a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against them. The lawsuit is being pursued by three Co-op members who object to the board’s 2010 decision to boycott Israeli goods in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to end Israel’s violations of international law. Plaintiffs claim that the board members acted beyond their authority and breached their fiduciary duties. Two prior courts in this case have ruled that the Co-op board had the authority to pass the boycott under the Co-op’s bylaws.

To put this speech in context, be aware that it was delivered four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, three years after the NATO expansion into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic had already joined NATO in 1999), and two years after the “Orange Revolution” had overthrown the legitimate government of Ukraine. Western moves for the military encirclement of Russia were well underway. The speech also occurred one year after the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and two years after the initial founding of the BRICS.

Satanically gleeful, with bugged-out eyes and flapping arms, on Oct. 20, 2011 during an interview with CBS news, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, upon hearing of the sadistic torture and murder of Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi, gushed out in an orgasm of ecstacy, “We came, we saw, he died.”

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a new financing package to support the continued implementation of the Pantawid Pamilya, the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.