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An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić visited the OSCE operations in Kyiv on 17 July , where he expressed his full support for their efforts aimed at addressing the crisis in and around Ukraine.

The priorities of Luxembourg EU Council Presidency will be outlined to the various parliamentary committees by Luxembourg ministers in a series of meetings to be held during this week.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced charges against three significant Afghan heroin traffickers, two of which were arrested in Thailand and subsequently brought to the United States. HAJI LAJAWARD, AMAL SAID SAID ALAM SHAH, a/k/a “Haji Zar Mohammad,” and HABIBULLAH were charged with conspiring to import heroin into the United States on July 17. LAJAWARD and SHAH were arrested in Thailand on June 13, 2015, and subsequently brought to the United States. They will be presented and arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis this afternoon. HABIBULLAH remains at large.

Children at a protection of civilians site in Juba, South Sudan, run by the UN Mission, perform at a special cultural event in March 2015.

Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk speaks with an elderly woman in a Rohingya village near Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, on 12 July 2015.

A family from Mosul breaks the Ramadan fast at an iftar dinner in their tent at the Baharka IDP camp in Erbil, Iraq.

A binding emergency mechanism to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states was backed by civil liberties MEPs on Thursday. An upcoming permanent scheme, on which Parliament will decide jointly with the Council, must be based "on a more substantial contribution to solidarity and responsibility-sharing among member states", MEPs say.