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Riot police armed with batons and shields used water cannon on dozens of angry protesters to clear Taiwan's Cabinet offices, which demonstrators had seized Sunday in as part of a days-long protest against a trade deal with communist China.

World leaders are meeting Monday in the Netherlands for a nuclear security summit that is expected to be overshadowed by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) pays his respects at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the recent violence in Kyiv.

Retaken: AMISOM troops march in Hudur.

NATO's top military commander said on Sunday that Russia had built up a large force on Ukraine's eastern border and he was worried Moscow may be eyeing Moldova's mainly Russian-speaking separatist Transdniestria region after annexing Crimea.

On 26 November 2012, children – bearing jerrycans and other containers – collect water from Lake Kivu, in the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

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High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay addresses the press in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Russia is refusing to back down in the face of U.S. and European sanctions imposed over Moscow's annexation of Crimea. Russia's latest actions have touched off a new round of worry for Russia's Western-leaning neighbors and more warnings from Washington.

The apparent breakthrough in the 12-day search for the Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370 came Thursday when Australian authorities said satellite imagery has located unidentified debris some 2,500 kilometers southwest of Perth, in the Indian Ocean, that could be from the missing airliner. Australia is sending search planes and ships to the region to try to confirm the finding.