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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters following Security Council consultations on Syria.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the country's main opposition leader are holding talks for a second time to find a way to resolve a political crisis that has escalated into deadly violence.

Ships at the port of Turkmenbashi, 7 July 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jerusalem to brief Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the latest developments concerning troubled neighbor Syria.

Aerial view of Herat, the second largest city in Afghanistan

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened talks in Geneva with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as international negotiations intensify to get Syria to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.

L-r: Jan Kohout, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic; OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara; and UNECE Executive Secretary Sven Alkalaj; alongside Halil Yurdakul Yigitgüden, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, at the opening session of the 21st OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, Prague, 11 September 2013.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meeting with President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria in Sirte

Russian news agencies report that Moscow has given the United States its plan for securing Syria's chemical weapons ahead of a meeting in Geneva between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart.