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UN Commission on Population and Development begins session in New York.

Ukraine's interior ministry said pro-Russian gunmen have seized state security headquarters in the eastern city of Luhansk, the scene of anti-government protests Sunday.

Australian and U.S. navy officials said they have detected more acoustic signals that may belong to a black box from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. However, they are stressing that the airliner's location cannot be confirmed until wreckage from flight MH370 is spotted on the surface or under the Indian Ocean.

UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Maria Sharapova is reaching out to the public in a series of posters to celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, April 6.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with President Paul Kagame in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on 6 April 2014.

At its spring session in Strasbourg on 7-11 April the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will debate a request to reconsider the already ratified credentials of the delegation of the Russian Federation on substantive grounds (under Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure) and is likely to hold an urgent debate on threats to the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine.

A joint parliamentary hearing on the need to eradicate statelessness in Europe, with a particular focus on statelessness among children, is to take place on Wednesday 9 April in Strasbourg on the margins of PACE’s spring session, ahead of a plenary debate on this topic.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Central African Republic on 5 April to spotlight the ongoing crisis.

Women from civil society participating in discussions in the run-up to the 5 April 2014 elections in Afghanistan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) displays a gold medal he received at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he delivered a lecture.