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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) introduces Sigrid Kaag, newly-appointed Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme.

Members of Albania's armed forces begin the process of repackaging and storing dangerous chemicals on October 14 2013.

Diplomats from Iran and six world powers are continuing talks Wednesday about proposals to address a decade-long standoff over the country's nuclear program.

Syrian warplanes bombed several rebel-held areas Tuesday and opposition fighters fired mortar rounds and homemade rockets at Damascus on the first day of a major Muslim holiday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the strongest terms a string of bombings which have killed or wounded scores of Iraqis ahead of the Eid Al-Adha holiday.

Sudan spends as much fighting in ongoing conflicts in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile as it did on the fuel subsidies that it cut last month, sparking weeks of deadly protests in Khartoum, the US special envoy to South Sudan and Sudan told VOA News, citing U.S. government estimates.

Officials in India say the death toll from a stampede on a bridge leading to a remote Hindu temple in Madhya Pradesh state has risen to 109.

A team of nuclear security experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) completed a mission to review nuclear security practices of civil nuclear facilities licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is currently working to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.

A partial view of the Security Council at its meeting to discuss the Central African Republic.