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Yarmouk residents gather to await food distribution from UNRWA in January 2014.

Venezuela's largest protests since the death of longtime leader Hugo Chavez nearly one year ago are sweeping the country. Rampant inflation, violent crime and chronic shortages of basic goods are fueling the outrage that is dividing the South American nation.

Security Council votes to adopt resolution on Yemen.

Debate on Ukraine: (top row from left) Štefan Füle, José Ignacio Salafranca, Hannes Swoboda; (middle row from left) Guy Verhofstadt, Rebecca Harms, Ryszard Legutko; (bottom row from left) Helmut Scholz, Jacek Kurski, Adrian Severin

Thailand's National Anti-Corruption Commission will hear negligence charges Thursday against the country's embattled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.

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UNICEF expressed its outrage at the brutal killing of some 45 children, between 13 and 17 years old, by unidentified gunmen at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Yobe State, Nigeria.

Medical care in South Sudan has come under heavy fire since fighting broke out in December, with patients shot in hospital beds, wards burned to the ground, medical equipment looted, even an entire hospital destroyed, international medical group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday.

Ukraine is a very different country than it was just a week ago, following a protest movement led by young people who overthrew the Russian-backed government. They now want to take the country in a new direction.

A UNICEF-led joint nutrition assessment on the situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon was launched, revealing malnutrition as a silent, emerging threat.