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Refugees cook a meal in Dadaab camp, Kenya.

Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera (r) is greeted by the Director of the Office of the OSCE Secretary General Marcel Pesko, on an official visit to the OSCE Secretariat, Vienna, 30 July 2013.

Paulo Pinheiro, Chairperson of the Commission of inquiry on Syria.

The aftermath of a bombing attack in Iraq

Natural gas has started flowing to energy hungry China via a controversial 793-kilometer pipeline from Burma.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators sat down together at dinner night in Washington as they get set to hold the first direct peace talks in three years.

Multiple bomb blasts in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people, a senior policeman said, in an area previously targeted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

A UNICEF-chartered cargo aircraft loaded with 52 metric tonnes of humanitarian supplies touched down in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his profound concern about the direction in which the transition in Egypt is moving and reiterated his strong condemnation of the upsurge of violence that has led to scores of people killed and hundreds others injured.

Heng Samrin, president of Cambodia's National Assembly casts his vote in Kampong Cham, July 28, 2013.