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The Netherlands will be at the helm of the Council of the EU for the first six months of this year. The country will focus on promoting economic growth and connecting with civil society. The priorities will be migration and international security; innovation and job creation; sound finances and a robust euro zone; a forward-looking climate and energy policy. We asked Dutch MEPs across the political spectrum about their expectations.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the telephone.

UNIFIL peacekeepers do Blue Line marking.

Special Representative Martin Kobler of Germany.

Ibrahim Nur Mohammed (centre-left) and Miwardi Siraj Ibro (front centre-left) with family and friends outside their preparatory school in Delsbo, Sweden.

A Central African Republic refugee casts her vote in Betou, Republic of Congo.

Families fleeing violence in Ramadi, Anbar province, walk across Bzebiz Bridge into Baghdad province in Iraq.

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.