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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.

A trio of experts, including two former U.S. Senators, have published grave warnings about the growing danger of thermonuclear war as the Ukraine crisis deepens, and both Russia and the United States modernize their strategic nuclear triad under conditions of great tension.

Greece elected the first government in Europe opposed to the European oligarchy’s nightmare policy of bailing out the bankrupt banks no matter how many people must die. The election of a new government led by the parties Syriza and the Independent Greeks, is a powerful repudiation of the murderous austerity policies imposed on Greece by the Troika, better known as the three horseman of the Apocalypse—the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. The question now is whether Spain and Portugal, or even Italy and Ireland, will be far behind.