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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are planning to disrupt the country’s presidential election scheduled for May 25, but Ukrainian officials maintain that the polls will be held.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left, at lectern) addresses the opening of the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Stockholm, Sweden.

A major workers' union in Turkey has called for a nationwide strike on Thursday, as the death toll in the country's worst-ever mine disaster rose to 282.

A riot at a Taiwanese steel plant in Vietnam has killed at least one Chinese worker, as thousands across the country protest against a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters of the South China Sea.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) at daily press briefing where he announced the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi, the Joint United Nations-League of Arab States Special Representative on the Syrian crisis.

Many schools have been damaged in the sectarian violence in the Central African Republic and families are still too scared to send their children back to classes.

Thousands of Vietnamese workers have staged anti-China protests over Beijing's decision to locate an oil rig in waters of the South China Sea also claimed by Hanoi.

Social safety net programs have grown exponentially around the world in recent years, but more than two-thirds of the world’s 1.2 billion poorest people –those living on less than US$1.25 per day—are still not covered, says a new World Bank report.
According to The State of Social Safety Nets 2014, more than 1 billion people in 146 low- and middle-income countries benefit from social safety net programs, yet 870 million of the world’s poorest people remain uncovered.

Representatives from Iran and six world powers are in Vienna, Austria, for a new round of talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council on his trip to South Sudan.