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The Taliban has taken territory in Khanabad district in the Afghanistan province of Kunduz on the other side of a bridge pictured here in August 2015.

A family of refugees walk along the beach after landing on the Greek island of Lesvos in January 2016.

UNRWA distributes life-saving assistance to displaced civilians from Yarmouk in Yalda, Syria.

Responding to requests for urgent assistance, the International Atomic Energy Agency will provide nuclear-derived early detection tools and training support to help Latin American and Caribbean countries rapidly identify cases of the Zika virus, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said on 11 February.

China announced Jan. 14 that it was committed to landing a rover on the far side of the Moon in order to make in situ surveys of the lunar surface. In this way, China is on the verge of opening up a new frontier for mankind’s exploration of the Galaxy. While China has only been a space-faring nation since the 1990s, its pace of development—as with China’s economic development generally—has been mind boggling. While the United States, under George W. Bush, and even more under Barack Obama, has been dismantling space capabilities built up over four decades, China is proceeding by leaps and bounds, not just to repeat what other space-faring nations have done, but now to chart new paths.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all Central Africans, including the candidates, to ensure that the presidential run-off and the new round of legislative elections, set to take place Sunday are conducted in a peaceful and credible manner.

The top United Nations official in Mali said he is “outraged” by an attack earlier on 12 February against a UN camp in Kidal, in the north-eastern region of the country, which killed at least three peacekeepers and wounded 30 others.

Media experts, journalists, diplomats, policymakers and government representatives gathered in Vienna on 12 February for an expert meeting to discuss the different aspects of the phenomenon of propaganda and its effects on media freedom and ultimately to the wellbeing of society.

UK Home Office has introduced new legislation which will aim to finish the job of police reform.

In his address to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 11 February Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov spoke about current security challenges in the South Caucasus and stressed the need to revitalize the Minsk Group for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.