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Senior UN official urges confidence-building measures to counter global insecurity

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Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inventory a...

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DR Congo: UN peacekeepers protect civilians after fighting in Kitchanga

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IDPS wait for food distribution from WFP near a MONUSCO base in Kitchanga after heavy fighting broke out...

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Children Killed in Burma Mosque Fire

Burmese police say as many as 13 people, most of them children, have died in a fire at a mosque in Rangoon.

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US Accuses Egypt of Stifling Free Speech After Comedian Arrest

The United States has accused Egypt of stifling freedom of speech, following the Egyptian government's arrest of a political satirist for allegedly insulting Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim religion.

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