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Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from a twin suicide bombing outside a historic Christian church has risen to 81 while Christians protest the attack at sites across the country.

General Assembly President John Ashe and Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson spoke with more than 1,100 civil society representatives about their priorities for global sustainable development in the years following the end of the current development cycle in 2015.

Russia has accused the United States of trying to "blackmail" it into letting the U.N. Security Council authorize force against the Syrian government if Damascus fails to give up its chemical weapons.

Heavy gunfire has erupted at the Nairobi shopping mall, where Kenya's military is trying to end a two-day assault by Islamist gunmen.

Pakistan has freed Afghan Taliban deputy commander Abdul Ghani Baradar in a attempt to jumpstart a tumultuous peace process in neighboring Afghanistan as most NATO troops prepare to leave the war-torn country by the end of 2014.

Iran's newly elected President Hassan Rouhani has pledged to join in constructive dialogue with world powers.

The son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf resigned his post as chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL).

One person has died after being hit by stones in Bangladesh as demonstrators protest the death sentence of a senior Islamist leader for war crimes committed in the country's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.

Andrii Deshchytsia (l), the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Conflicts, alongside Gerard A. Fischer, the interim Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, at the 37th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, Ergneti, 16 September 2013.

Delegates from 50 countries across Africa, Europe and the Persian Gulf came together in Brussels to sign a ‘New Deal Compact’ to help rebuild Somalia,
after two decades of civil war and lawlessness. The plan sets out government spending priorities and future international support.