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Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute and chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo), warned on Jan. 27 of the dramatically escalating danger of nuclear war between the West and Russia, as a result of the ongoing collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system. The forces that want to maintain this bankrupt system at any cost are the same ones that are behind the war-mongering, she said.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Timothy Lawson prepares to change a filter on meteorological equipment used to predict impending precipitation at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2015.

Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos (right) and UNESCO Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker addressing the press in Juba, South Sudan.

Some 16,600 children are registered as having lost one or both parents, or their primary caregivers to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but less than 3 per cent have had to be placed outside family or community care, UNICEF said on 6 February.

Participants at the Libya dialogue, Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 27 January 2015.

A child sips on therapeutic milk at a hospital in Juba, South Sudan, where nearly one million children are suffering from acute malnutrition.

Wide view of the Security Council.

Parliamentary committees deal this week with issues such as helping out refugees from Syria and offering better legal protection to young people accused of crime, while the political groups prepare for next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The week starts with a two-day meeting with MEPs and national parliamentarians from all over the EU to discuss how the cooperation on budgetary matters can be improved.

A wide view of the Security Council in session.