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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon payes tribute to Nelson Mandela at memorial service in South Africa.

In Pakistan, thousands of civilians and security force members died in terrorist violence in 2013. Military campaigns and political outreach have made little headway in reducing the toll. But, Pakistani youth are trying to open a dialogue and end the violence, even in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions.

Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Tarek Mitri, briefs the Security Council on the situation in that country.

Leaders from around the world will pay tribute at Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who died last week at the age of 95.

A wall of photos at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Islamabad Monday. He will meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the first visit to Pakistan by the top Pentagon official in several years.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the telephone.

Internally displaced people in the Central African Republic.

UNICEF has joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to launch a huge immunization campaign against polio in Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he believes Israel and the Palestinians are closer to a peace agreement than they have been in years at the end of a three-day trip to the region.