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Astrid Thors, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, before delivering a report to the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, 12 December 2013.

A makeshift memorial to those killed and injured during recent demonstrations in Kiev, Ukraine. (February 2014).

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton travels Monday to Ukraine, where she is due to meet with new interim leaders who want their country to forge closer ties with the EU.

South Korea and the United States have begun annual military exercises over the objection of North Korea, which has claimed they are rehearsals for an invasion.

An FARDC soldier takes a break on the frontline during 2013 operations against the armed group M23.

The United States says the deal between Ukraine's president and the opposition ending the country's political crisis is "very, very fragile" and needs global support.

At an extraordinary meeting on 20 February, EU foreign ministers decided to introduce sanctions against those responsible for violence and the use of excessive force in Ukraine.

Nigerian police report 60 people were killed early Wednesday when insurgents attacked a town in northern Nigeria. Witnesses blamed militant group Boko Haram, which has issued a new threat to bomb oil refineries and kill prominent Muslim clerics.

The impact of the heightened violence in Ukraine on children and their families is a matter of growing concern.