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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier (r) and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic, Vienna, 31 October 2013.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara (centre-right), during a conference on confidence-building measures in the Transdniestrian settlement process, Landshut, 30 October

Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson (2nd left) chats with medical staff from the Ugandan contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) during a visit on 27 October 2013.

A settler woman walks past an Israeli soldier standing guard in East Jerusalem.

Students at Cairo's al-Azhar University took over an administrative building Wednesday and university officials called on security forces to intervene. The incident came after Egyptian authorities detained a top Muslim Brotherhood political figure.

The head of the National Security Agency, Army General Keith Alexander, is defending U.S. surveillance programs amid a wave of outrage across Europe. Alexander faced a mixed reaction from lawmakers on Capitol Hill at a House hearing Tuesday.

For the 22nd year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the United States' economic embargo against Cuba.

The mass surveillance scandal and recent press reports on the tapping of European politicians' mobile phones are to be discussed with US authorities, by a civil liberties committee delegation to Washington from 28 to 30 October. “We will have the opportunity to discuss directly with US counterparts the alleged surveillance activities of US authorities and any impact they have in terms of EU citizens fundamental right to privacy," said Claude Moraes, who is the head of the delegation.

"Take control. Speak up and speak out. Be bold and be audacious” said UNESCO Director-General to the Youth Forum delegates