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An Israeli settlement in West Bank

Ali Madaan, 45, is one of the Bedouin guards protecting the al-Midan station in Egypt's northern Sinai. The natural gas pipeline there has come under repeated attacks.

MDG 8: a global partnership for development

The United Nations has launched a pilot programme that uses mobile telephone technology to facilitate cash transfers to help thousands of poor people that were badly affected by the post-election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire to buy food.

In San Francisco in September, dozens of people with disabilities gathered to protest proposed cuts to Medicaid and Medicare programs. The Supreme Court will hear the case on Monday.

Financial markets in Europe and the United States slumped badly Monday after Greece conceded it will not meet its deficit reduction goals for this year — or next — despite its austerity measures.

A water system that runs through Kominé, part of the Millennium Villages of Tiby in central Mali

Pirates off Somalia

Participants of the puppetry workshop conduct a risk education class on the dangers of UXOs at the Umm Aymah basic school in El Fasher, North Darfur