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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launches report at UN General Assembly.

The French prime minister says there have been "several arrests" in the search for two suspects in Wednesday's shooting spree that left 12 people dead at the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has talks in Berlin Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They are expected to focus on security and extended economic aid to the cash-strapped Kyiv government.

Syrian refugees arrive across the border into Jordan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemns the appalling and “cold-blooded crime” committed by terrorists who attacked the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Security officials say a car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in Yemen's capital, killing at least 30 people and wounding 40 others.

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.