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Thai opposition protesters took to the streets for an eighth consecutive day Tuesday as the government considered an emergency decree following an outbreak of violence.

Clashes between anti-government protesters and police continued for a third day on Tuesday in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

IDPs at Bangui Airport in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addresses the Security Council during its debate on the Middle East.

Officials in northern Pakistan say a suicide bomber has struck a market near the country's military headquarters, killing at least nine people.

The deputy chairman of the African Union says his organization is working closely with officials of the Central African Republic (CAR) to stabilize security there as the country prepares to elect a new interim transitional president Monday.

A daytime grenade attack on an anti-government rally site in Thailand has left more than two dozen wounded, pointing to an escalation in violence as political tensions rise. The bloodshed has led to senior army commanders calling for negotiations amid fears of further attacks by armed groups.

Civilians fleeing the fighting and seeking refuge, wait outside a compound of the UN Mission in Bor (December 2013).

An entire generation is in grave danger. The #childrenofsyria are watching their futures slip away. They desperately want and need to go to school. To be protected. To be comforted.

Meanwhile, in March 2003, Bush had ordered the long-planned invasion of Iraq, billing this as the next step in the "war on terror." Zelikow faithfully followed Bush and Cheney's lead, in attempting to concoct the case that Saddam Hussein was somehow linked to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. Zelikow went so far as to feature, as a prominent witness in a July 2003 public hearing, the neo-con crackpot Laurie Mylroie, who blamed Iraq for just about every terrorist attack in the history of the world, including the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.