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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.

The world has welcomed, but also expressed suspicion about the Russian president's endorsement of Ukraine's upcoming presidential election. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday also called on pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine to postpone their referendum on independence planned for the coming days.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressees World Committee on Food Security in Rome on 7 May 2014.

The United States has announced its first sanctions against South Sudan, where clashes between pro- and anti-government forces have left thousands of people dead since mid-December.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and former vice president turned opposition leader Riek Machar will hold talks this week in Addis Ababa, the regional bloc mediating peace negotiations between the two sides in South Sudan's deadly conflict said Tuesday.