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The search for wreckage from a missing Malaysia airliner continued Wednesday in the remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean.

Air pollution now linked to 1 in 8 deaths worldwide

Unless the humanitarian situation inside South Sudan improves rapidly and radically for children and families, nearly a million people - mostly women and children - will face an even greater crisis both inside the South Sudan and in neighbouring countries, UNICEF said.

U.S. news outlets have reported that the Obama administration will propose new legislation that will ban the National Security Agency from the collection and storing of massive amounts of Americans' phone records.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) addresses the opening session of the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague.

Special Rapporteur on transitional justice Pablo de Greiff.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) addresses the opening session of the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague.

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Riot police armed with batons and shields used water cannon on dozens of angry protesters to clear Taiwan's Cabinet offices, which demonstrators had seized Sunday in as part of a days-long protest against a trade deal with communist China.

World leaders are meeting Monday in the Netherlands for a nuclear security summit that is expected to be overshadowed by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) pays his respects at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the recent violence in Kyiv.