World | WPN World People News

The EU must step up sanctions targeting individual Russians and be ready to impose economic sanctions on Russia immediately, MEPs said in a vote on Thursday. They also called for EU measures against Russian firms and their subsidiaries, especially in the energy sector, and Russia's EU assets, against a background of violence designed to destabilise the east and south of Ukraine.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meeting with displaced persons at the main mosque in Bangui, during his visit to the Central African Republic on 5 April 2014.

A makeshift primary school for students at the UNMISS displaced persons camp in Bor, Jonglei state, South Sudan.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned his National Security Council to a Thursday meeting in Abuja, after suspected militants carried out a string of deadly attacks and abducted more than 100 school girls.

The latest reported mortar attack on a school inside the old city of Damascus on Tuesday during school hours is a stark and horrific reminder of the violence that children across Syria are enduring on a daily basis. The attack is reported to have resulted in the death of one child and the injury of many others.

Since June 2013, attacks in northeastern Nigeria have resulted in school closures affecting thousands of students, many of whom have had no access to education in months.

Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson addresses the Security Council meeting on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

UN Police at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) lead a security sweep of the grounds at the UN House in Juba, currently serving as a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) escaping the ongoing violence throughout the country.

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

A bomb has exploded in Egypt's capital, wounding two policemen.

Officials said the blast Tuesday in central Cairo targeted a security checkpoint.