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The United States is giving Nigeria counterterrorism assistance to help in the search for hundreds of girls kidnapped last month by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

A wide view of the Security Council in session (file photo).

The U.S. and Philippine militaries have launched a large, 10-day, annual military exercise amid increasing tensions in the disputed South China Sea.

Iran says United Nations nuclear inspectors will visit two sites this week as part of its agreement to curb nuclear activities.

World leaders, including several African heads of state and government will gather this week in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, for the World Economic Forum.

If we are going to eliminate the threat of a civil war in Ukraine, which could escalate quickly into a regional war, and even to a thermonuclear World War III, concrete solutions must immediately be placed on the agenda. The abduction of the OSCE (Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe) observers today in eastern Ukraine underlines that time is running out.

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.