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A wide view of the Security Council meeting on the situation in Mali.

Gunmen in San Pedro Sula, Honduras have kidnapped a prominent teenage AIDS activist.

Head of UNMEER Ould Cheikh Ahmed (left) works inside a UN MI-8 helicopter with Dr. David Nabarro, UN Special Envoy on Ebola, while visiting Liberia.

A Gambian Diaspora leader said two US citizens charged by the United States for conspiracy to overthrow Gambian President Yahya Jammeh in a failed coup attempt are liberators of Gambia’s “oppressed” people.

A MONUSCO attack helicopter provides aerial protection for a convoy carrying FDLR ex-combatants from Kanyabayonga transit camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The Islamic State group has released a new propaganda video, this one showing a British hostage depicting life as normal in the militant-controlled Iraqi city of Mosul.

North Korea has lashed out at the United States for imposing new sanctions as punishment for allegedly hacking the computers of Sony Pictures.

AirAsia officials said four more bodies were recovered from the Java Sea on Sunday as Indonesian emergency teams continued searching for the wreckage of a passenger jet that disappeared one week ago.

Israel is weighing more steps to punish the Palestinians for their efforts to join the International Criminal Court, even as it froze $125 million in tax revenues it collects for them.

Today, marks the expiration of the six month grace period granted by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the full and unconditional surrender and demobilization of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).