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The UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) provided logistical support to the Independent Electoral Commission by transporting election material for the October 2015 poll.

Trucks, loaded with enough food to feed 40,000 people for one month in Madaya, Syria, are unloaded in the dark on arrival on 11 January 2016.

A busy street in in Istanbul, Turkey.

Starving civilians trapped in this besieged Syrian town foraged for grass and herbs in a horrifying humanitarian crisis only broken when an aid convoy arrived this week, the UN Refugee Agency said on Tuesday.

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A young boy holds a piece of exploded artillery shell, which landed in the village of Al Mahjar, a suburb of Sana’a.

The priorities of the incoming Dutch presidency of the EU Council are being outlined to parliamentary committees by Dutch ministers at a series of meetings this week.

A humanitarian convoy on its way to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft joined delegates in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the first meeting of the Assembly.

The Jan. 2 mass executions by the Saudi regime, including the execution of the top Shi’ite cleric in the Kingdom, were not only an act of barbarism, in keeping with the Wahhabi/Salafi terrorism of the Islamic State. The action was aimed at triggering a new Hundred Years religious war within the Islamic world, pitting Sunni against Shia, and Arab against Persian.