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A three-week advanced training course on effective use of dogs in countering transnational threats to the country’s security concluded on 28 August in Almaty.

MEPs are able to take on many different responsibilities in the European Parliament.

The entire global strategic situation can be summed up in two essential facts. First, Wall Street is disintegrating and the entire U.S. economy is about to vanish, unless immediate action is taken. Second, President Barack Obama is moving in the direction of launching thermonuclear war against Russia. He is seeking an element of surprise, trying to outguess the Russians.

Returning Afghan refugees pose for one last memorable photo at the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centre in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Refugee or Migrant – word choice matters.

A Parliament delegation visited reception centres for asylum seekers in Sicily

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan at the signing ceremony in the country's capital, Juba.

Families evacuated from East Ghouta, Syria, congregate in the courtyard of the Dahit Qudsayya collective shelter for basic aid.

A Syrian refugee walks over a bridge of rubbish and sewage which is choking a canal that abuts a settlement of Syrian refugees living on rented land in the fields outside of Zahle, Lebanon.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres (right) greets French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (left).