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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department has opened a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of the midwest city of St. Louis.

Special Coordinator for the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the UN (OPCW-UN) Sigrid Kaag briefs the press.

Ghazni, Afghanistan

World leaders are gathering Thursday in Wales for the start of a two-day NATO summit expected to focus on the conflict in Ukraine and the threat of Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq.

UNDOF peacekeepers patrol Golan Heights.

Special Representative for Iraq Nickolay Mladenov.

U.S. defense officials have confirmed that the leader of the terrorist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi al-Mohammad, also known as Ahmed Godane, was the target of a recent U.S. drone attack in Somalia.

NATO is preparing for what many are calling one of the alliance’s most important summits in many years. When member leaders meet later this week in Wales, they are expected to take strong actions to form a new force that can act swiftly to handle what many see as Russian aggression.

"We need to make our budgetary procedure simpler and faster: currently there is too much bureaucracy, and money given too late for humanitarian actions is wasted money", urged Foreign Affairs Committee chair Elmar Brok (EPP, DE) in Tuesday’s committee debate on international crises in the EU’s neighbourhood. The committee is to debate the crises in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, Libya and Ukraine in meetings this week.

United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change Mary Robinson Mary Robinson briefs journalists (September 2013).