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Ambassador Tim Guldimann, Personal Envoy of the Swiss OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Ukraine, briefing OSCE participating States and senior OSCE officials, Vienna, 3 March 2014.

Ambassador Tim Guldimann, Personal Envoy of the Swiss OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Ukraine, briefing OSCE participating States and senior OSCE officials, Vienna, 3 March 2014.

Lawmakers in Crimea have voted in favor of the Ukrainian region becoming part of Russia.

Thursday's vote by the Moscow-backed Crimean parliament came as European Union leaders gathered for an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss how to pressure Russia to back down from its military incursion into Crimea.

Source: Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

A group of Central African Republic refugees on arrival in N'Djamena, Chad, after being evacuated from Bangui by aircraft.

Four months after Super Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the central Philippines on 8 November 2013, a growing sense of recovery is notable in the reopening of health centres, clean water flowing again through community taps, children back to learning in temporary schools.

A NATO airstrike killed five Afghan soldiers and wounded at least eight others early Thursday in the eastern province of Logar.

International efforts to defuse the situation in Ukraine will continue Thursday after a series of meetings Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said made some progress. Meanwhile, tension over Russia's military moves boiled over in parts of eastern Ukraine.

Desperate crowd awaits relief aid at Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.