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Maduro Welcomes Third-Party Mediation in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accepted the idea of third-party mediation in talks with the opposition.

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Recent crisis in Anbar most serious challenge to state-building in Iraq – UN envoy

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Special Representative Nickolay Mladenov briefs the Security Council.

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Backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity, UN Assembly declares Crimea referendum invalid

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A wide view of the temporary General Assembly.

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North Korea Slams South's President as Tensions Mount

North Korea has made a blistering verbal attack on South Korean President Park Geun-hye, calling her a "faithful servant and stooge" of the U.S. and comparing her to a "blabbering" peasant woman.

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Christian Ehler: for the US there is no partner comparable to Europe

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Christian Ehler

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Egypt's Sissi Appears Virtually Unchallenged in Presidency Bid

Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has resigned from the military and announced he will run for president. With few viable opponents to challenge the field marshal, his official status as the nation's leader seems all but assured.

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‘Majestic’ Greenland provides UN chief first-hand look at impacts of climate change

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark.

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Obama: Russia Acting 'Out of Weakness' on Ukraine

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Search Resumes for Missing Malaysian Jetliner

The search for wreckage from a missing Malaysia airliner continued Wednesday in the remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean.

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Air pollution now linked to 1 in 8 deaths worldwide, UN health agency reports

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Air pollution now linked to 1 in 8 deaths worldwide

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