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Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as Ukraine’s prime minister blamed police corruption there for dozens of deaths in rioting on Friday.

A young Timorese man in Dili reads a local daily, the Suara Timor Lorosae, as World Press Freedom Day (3 May) approaches.

Map showing location of Assam state

One year old Exouce, who is suffering from malnutrition, sits in a tent where he and his family are taking shelter at the Don Bosco centre in Bangui.

A makeshift primary school for students at the UNMISS displaced persons camp in Bor, Jonglei state, South Sudan.

A car bomb killed at least 15 people late Thursday at a bus terminal on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

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.