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Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN Riyad Mansour (right) speaks to the press.

Voting takes place in the Security Council on a draft resolution dealing with Palestinian statehood.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained after trying to join his supporters in central Moscow Tuesday protesting his sentencing on fraud charges earlier in the day. The court gave the lawyer and blogger a suspended jail sentence, but ordered his brother, Oleg Navalny, who also was on trial, to serve three-and-a-half years in prison.

A WFP barge transporting food supplies on the Nile River

Police in northwestern Pakistan say they have detained a key militant commander who is accused in the 2012 killing of a reporter for Voice of America's Deewa Radio.

UN peacekeepers patrolling Tessalit, northern Mali.

The Census Bureau said the U.S. population grew a bit less than 1 percent over the last year and will hit 320,090,857 at New Year.

Rescuers continue to work Monday to save the hundreds of passengers still aboard a burning Greek ferry off the island of Corfu.

A destroyed house in Ahy Badr in the town of Mizdah in the Nafusa mountains in Libya after tribal conflict in March 2013.

The chief of the search effort for missing Indonesia AirAsia flight 8501, which vanished a day earlier, stated Monday that "the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea."