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United Nations peacekeepers were out in force at polling stations throughout the Central African Republic (CAR) Wednesday as the country voted in presidential and legislative elections, a major step on the path to stability after two years of conflict between Muslims and Christians.

A performer with Clowns Without Borders entertains children at Kawergosk Refugee Camp, in Iraq's norther Kurdistan region.

A refugee from Syria hugs her crying daughter moments after reaching the Greek Island of Lesvos from Turkey in an inflatable boat.

Sudanese refugee Amal Bakith and her children ride a UNHCR bus to Ajuong Thok camp in South Sudan.

People demonstrate in Bujumbura against a decision by Burundi’s ruling party to nominate President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term (April 2015).

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić called on 25 December on all sides in eastern Ukraine to keep ensuring lasting peace throughout holiday season.

Corrupt popular opinion and media insist that Obama’s removal is impossible. Indeed, they go so far as to try to insist that it isn’t even being discussed. But thanks first of all, and most of all to the key catalytic role of Lyndon LaRouche’s “Manhattan Project,” neither assertion is true. In fact, there is active discussion of the need for Obama’s removal at the highest levels of government. No more lying: it can be done, it must be done, and we must see to it that it is done, and done quickly.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria has set 25 January 2016 as the target date to begin talks between the parties aimed at ending the five-year-old conflict, his spokesperson announced on 26 December.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on December 24 condemned the destruction of parts of the ancient Syrian city of Bosra in fighting two days ago, alerting the world art market to potential trafficking in artefacts from the World Heritage