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Six months after fighting reaches capital, no end to horror for children in Central African Republic violence: UNICEF

Six months since intense fighting reached Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, scores of children have been killed, hundreds have been maimed and thousands have been displaced.

UN chief condemns shooting of Ukrainian plane, 49 aboard killed

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Israel Lawmakers Spar Over Future Borders

A controversial plan by an Israeli political leader to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has triggered an angry debate in Israel, exposing serious divisions in the coalition government over the future of the peace process with the Palestinians.

Former NATO Commander Wesley Clark: Crimea Is Not Kosovo

When NATO jets attacked Serbian military targets in Kosovo in 1999, relations between the West and Russia plummeted to lows not seen since before the Soviet collapse eight years earlier.