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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife Yoo Soon-taek in Bonn, Germany.

On Saturday, May 30, former two-term Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley made his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination official. Writing for Bloomberg News, Mark Halperin noted that the speech could very well serve as a “game changer” in the 2016 Presidential campaign.

Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has joined the appeals for calm following explosions at a rally of the HDP party on June 5 in Diyarbakir.

Burundians arriving in Rwanda after fleeing pre-election violence.

Congolese refugees compare items of clothing donated by UNIQLO, which has now distributed more than 10 million items of clothing through UNHCR.

These two Yazidi ladies were forced to flee their home in northern Iraq to escape from militant forces. They are among the many needing help.

Peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMISS) man a guard post overlooking a POC (Protection of Civilians) site in Juba.

Displaced women and children queue for food distributions in the Al Takiya Al Kasnazaniya Collective Centre encampment in Baghdad Governorate Iraq.

A woman and her children in a camp for internally displaced persons, in Yola, the capital of Adamawa, Nigeria, after members of the Boko Haram rebel group attacked their home.

South Sudanese refugees wait to be registered at a crossing into Ethiopia earlier in 2015.