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A President of one of the two counties almost perennially at war with each other visiting the other, what on the face of mother earth makes news that gets bigger than this? The fact that this is a President on Pilgrimage, and not on another diplomatic mission infused with dry details of that elusive thaw in the relations merely adds to the importance and makes it a stuff of legend.

UN-funded housing project site for Palestinians at Khan Younis, Gaza.

Members of a Syrian family register as refugees in northern Lebanon.

A Bosnian-born immigrant in New York accused on nine terrorism counts heard a second friend testify that he was a willing participant in a suicide bombing plot in New York City.

A Congolese woman, displaced by LRA attacks, carries a bag of non-food items distributed by UNHCR in Dungu, DR of Congo.

Special Rapporteur Joy Ngozi Ezeilo.

A wave of fierce suicide attacks and fighting unleashed by heavily-armed Taliban in Kabul and three other Afghan cities ended Monday morning, after about 18 hours, leaving 51 people dead, including 36 terrorists, officials said.

Almost half of Sudan’s oil is pumped out of Heglig.

War damage: the South Kordofan town of Talodi has been the scene of recent fighting

Kishore Singh, Special Rapporteur on the right to education.