




A migrant girl plays with her doll at the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni, where thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded by the Balkan border blockade. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called for a united global effort to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis, as he opened a conference on securing resettlement places for nearly half a million of those displaced. More than one million migrants, about half of them Syrians, reached Europe via the Mediterranean last year, a rate of arrivals that has continued through the first three months of 2016.


People try to comfort a Pakistani Christian mother during the funeral of her two daughters, killed in a suicide bombing Sunday, in Lahore, Pakistan. The massive suicide bombing by a breakaway Taliban faction targeted Christians gathered for Easter Sunday in a park in Lahore, killing at least 70 people, mostly Muslims.



