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People waiting to board a boat to take them across the Gulf of Aden.

A series of grenade attacks in a Somali neighborhood of Nairobi this past year has killed dozens of people and injured more than 100 others. Members of the Somali community living in the area believe the attacks are politically motivated, and accuse the Kenyan government of trying to chase them away from the city.

The end of the world is near -- that is according to some interpretations of Mayan predictions. While those predictions say it all ends December 21 at 11:11 UTC, some say the tiny village of Bugarach, in southwestern France, will be saved.

These Malian women fled fighting in the north of the country and found shelter in Sevare town.

UN peacekeepers in South Sudan assisting civilians caught up in the violence in Wau, the capital of Western Bahr El Ghazal state.

A Soldier at the Sussex, Wis., National Guard armory readies a light medium tactical vehicle for use during a major snowstorm that hit Wisconsin on Dec. 19, 2012.

Soldiers with Task Force Centurion Prime's HHC and C Company pray together before heading out on a mission recently in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Ruined and abandoned house in the northern Central African Republic.

Special Representative for Afghanistan Ján Kubiš briefs the Security Council.

Acting less than a week after the massacre of 26 people, including 20 young children and six adults, in a school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama has ordered creation of a government-wide task force to come up with solutions to gun violence.