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Ukraine Crisis Hampers EU's Central African Republic Mission

The Ukraine crisis is hampering the European Union's plans to send a peacekeeping force to Central African Republic because nervous eastern European countries want to keep their troops at home rather than send them to Africa, diplomats said on Friday...

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Syria: UN-Arab League envoy says Security Council must push for productive peace talks

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Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria, briefs reporters.

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Together ‘we can pull Ukraine back from the brink’, UN political chief tells Security Council

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Map of Crimea

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Rebel Oil Shipment Prompts Political Chaos in Libya

Ali Zeidan was forced to stand down as Libya’s prime minister this week after rebel forces in the east successfully exported oil via a North Korean flagged tanker - despite assurances from the government that naval forces were in control. Zeidan’s...

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