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The recently released detainees accused of plotting to overthrow South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir are ready to meet both the country’s leader and former vice president Riek Machar as part of a bid to help resolve the crisis, according to Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, a released detainee.

“UNICEF is outraged by the attack on a health centre that killed 22 civilians, including three aid workers with the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in the northern town of Boguila, Central African Republic, on Saturday 26 April.

Turmoil in eastern Ukraine continued Tuesday, a day after the United States and Europe announced new sanctions against Russia for failing to take steps to de-escalate the crisis in its neighbor to the west. Pro-Russian demonstrators in the Ukrainian city of Luhansk seized government buildings and the local television center, after similar actions in Donetsk and Slovyansk.

Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman (second left), briefs the Security Council on the worsening situation in Ukraine.

A private land and sea survey company says it has detected possible material from the missing Malaysian jetliner in the Bay of Bengal.

This group of displaced people are living in a school in the town of Bossangoa, Central African Republic, but remain at risk, like some 15,000 other Muslims in surrounded sites.

EU-Ukraine ties showed increasing promise as Kiev seemed to take the long path leading to European integration.

The European Union has released the names of 15 Russians who are the latest targets of sanctions due to their roles in the Ukraine crisis.

Mortar shells have struck a neighborhood in central Damascus in a deadly attack the Syrian government is blaming on "terrorists."

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) with Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach (left) and Jacques Rogge, Special Envoy for Youth Refugees and Sport.