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The grounds of St Joseph parish on June 27, 2014. Approximately 9,000 residents of Bambari had fled there for their safety after the town was attacked on June 23.

The city of Benghazi in the early morning sunlight.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović warned about actions that could further limit media freedom and media pluralism in Luhansk and Crimea.

Girls receiving treatment for cholera at Hiyala health centre in South Sudan.

Two children stand in front of a house that police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Maghazi refugee camp in Center Gaza Strip.

Bahrain should immediately drop charges against two prominent opposition members for meeting with a US diplomat on July 6, 2014. Bahrain should repeal the law that bars leaders of political societies from meeting with foreign diplomats without government permission.

Refugees and returnees who have fled Boko Haram violence in Borno State, Nigeria, sheltering in Niger's Guesseré village on the border.

Members of the Iraqi security forces patrol an area near the borders between Karbala Province and Anbar Province on June 16, 2014.

The decision of the Ugandan High Court published on July 9, 2014, endorsing the government closure of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights workshop violates the right to freedom of assembly, Human Rights Watch said. Justice Stephen Musota ruled against four LGBT rights activists who had sued the ethics and integrity minister, Simon Lokodo, for shutting down a February 2012 workshop.