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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.

A young child inside her house in the Muhamasheen area of Mathbah, in Sana'a, Yemen. 2 November 2015.

Girls fetching water in Mawyah district, Taiz. This role often falls on the shoulders of girls and young women, often at the expense of their education.

The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) which centralises and coordinates EU member states’ fisheries inspections, will be empowered to use the data provided by its ship reporting systems to detect vessels carrying migrants under updated rules approved by Parliament's Fisheries Committee on Tuesday. It will also be able to and conduct new types of operations to disrupt people smuggling routes.