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Renate Sommer

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.

Afghan refugees sit outside their tent in Islamabad, Pakistan.

A Syrian refugee family in southern Turkey, where more than 20,000 people have fled to so far in early 2014 to escape fighting.

The remains of burnt vehicles following the recent demonstrations in Kiev, Ukraine. (February 2014).

President Obama called Afghan President Karzai on Tuesday to reiterate that there will be no U.S. troop presence on the ground in Afghanistan unless the Afghan government signs a bilateral security agreement.

Top diplomats from the United States and Britain are denying that Ukraine faces an East-West divide following the ouster of Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych.