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On a visit in South Sudan on 7 May 2014, the Secretary General has repeatedly called on both sides to find a political solution and put an immediate end to the violence, which has led to suffering of so many innocent civilians.

A male egret with mating plumage at the Mysore Bird Sanctuary, Ranganthittu, India.

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) liberated the town of Hudur, Somalia, from Al-Shabaab extremists two months ago. While the situation in the town is now largely peaceful, the disruption of supply routes into Hudur by Al-Shabaab has caused massive food shortages.

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Secretary-General had Audience with His Holiness Pope Francis, with CEB members.

Sigrid Kaag (top right), Special Coordinator of the Joint Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons programme, speaks to journalists following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on Syria.

Thousands of anti-government protesters are fanning out in Thailand's capital of Bangkok in an attempt to bring down a caretaker government after a court ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down and an anti-graft agency charged her with negligence.

The European Youth Event 2014 will take place in Strasbourg on 9-11 May

Thai police say a grenade was thrown early Thursday at the home of one of the judges of the country's Constitutional Court, which a day earlier ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.