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After only 12 months a piece of desolate Jordanian desert is now home to some 120,000 Syrian refugees.

United States Secretary of State John Kerry.

Pau Gasol, two-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and UNICEF Spanish Committee Ambassador since 2003, has returned from visiting Syrian refugees in Iraq.

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.