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The EU has yet to unleash its full potential to shape the international and security environment, Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs said on Tuesday. In a vote on the annual report on Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), they called for a more ambitious, proactive, credible and strategic EU foreign policy based on a shared vision of EU key interests and values and a common perception of threats to the Union.

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, briefs the Security Council on the situation in South Sudan.

Security Council holds meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security.

One hundred and fifty people gathered at the latest Schiller Institute conference in Manhattan on Feb. 14, to discuss how to build a mass movement for development, and avoid the imminent threat of thermonuclear confrontation with Russia. The three-and-a-half-hour event, keynoted by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, also featured presentations on subjects ranging from the strategic situation, to the scientific and economic perspective needed to raise mankind to the level required to launch a new creative era.

The warm welcome offered to Russian President Vladimir Putin by both the government and people of Egypt, during his Feb. 9-10 visit to Cairo, and the bilateral agreements reached during the visit, show once again Egypt’s determination to remain a truly sovereign nation-state with great, legitimate ambitions for progress and for securing its realm.

While most European leaders continue to follow the dictates of the financial oligarchy, Greece’s position is clear: There can be no compromise between national survival and self-destruction. Greece cannot pay the illegitimate and onerous debt, nor can it continue with genocidal austerity. Greece is offering Europe the opportunity to convene a European Debt Conference, launch a New Deal, and work with the BRICS countries and their allies for a new economic paradigm.

To coincide with International Open Data Day, when countries across the globe will show their support for open data policies, Ordnance Survey (OS) is announcing it will launch a world-leading digital map as open data and create an engagement hub in London.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) addresses the opening of the Ministerial Meeting of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, hosted by the United States Government, in Washington, D.C.

Special Representative Bernardino León (on screen) addresses the Security Council via video link from Tripoli, Libya.

Boys play on the streets of Aleppo, capital of the north-western Aleppo Governorate, Syria.