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Hundreds of protesters were arrested Thursday after staging a sit-in at a U.S. Senate office building in Washington to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.

A Save the Children-supported education facility reaching 536 students in Dara’a, Syria was badly damaged in the last week after being hit in an airstrike, just hours after classes had to be suspended for security reasons amid escalating violence. In a separate incident, at another school run by Save the Children’s partner organization Olive Branch, a guard was injured in an airstrike when he went to check on the facility and later died of his wounds.

The President of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker together with the Heads of State or Government of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, on June 28, agreed on the Political Roadmap for synchronising the Baltic States' electricity grid with the continental European network by the target date of 2025.

More than 10,000 children were killed or maimed last year in armed conflicts around the world, a U.N. report said this week.

More than 21,000 "grave violations" of children's rights were reported in 2017, a sharp increase from the year before, according to the annual Children and Armed Conflict report that was released Wednesday.

To achieve their goals and objectives, the countries of South East Europe must focus on their common interests, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (Georgia) said at a meeting of the European Leadership Network at the House of Lords in London on June 28.

Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Salva Kiir, President of South Sudan, at the 28th summit of the African Union (AU), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

A U.S. federal judge has ordered the government to reunite immigrant parents and children it separated after they crossed the border, as part of a preliminary injunction halting those separations unless the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child.

A fishing boat heads to sea on the southern Mediterranean. Thousands of refugees and migrants have died while trying to reach Europe on rubber dinghies or small wooden boats like this one.

The governor of Nigeria's central Plateau state has revised the death toll from last weekend's clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Chinese counterpart amid rising diplomatic, military and economic tensions between the two superpowers.