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Following the Paris attacks the secretary-general of the Arab League has urged greater cooperation between it and the EU to counter extremism. Addressing Parliament's foreign affairs committee on 20 January Nabil El Araby said "the problems we face now are of universal character and are not confined to one place." He outlined how the Arab world looks upon Europe and said that "the European Union has been to the forefront of all just causes."

A wide view of the special event on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.

Children in the Khanke Camp near Dohuk city, Iraq, which mainly houses Yazidis fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Children at a primary school in the town of Toro, Bauchi State, Nigeria.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened an election observation mission (EOM) for the 1 March parliamentary elections in the Republic of Tajikistan on January 20. The mission’s deployment follows an official invitation from the Tajikistan authorities.

Anna Elżbieta Fotyga, chair of the subcommittee on security and defence; and Claude Moraes, chair of the committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs

OSCE Chairperson, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, speaking during the inaugural Permanent Council meeting of Serbia's OSCE Chairmanship, Vienna, 15 January 2015.

A group of Nigerian refugees rest in the Cameroon town of Mora after fleeing armed Boko Haram attacks.

Young girls in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Léon (10th from left) with delegates after the meeting of Libyan parties at UN Headquarters in Geneva.