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Women wait to vote in Fouah Bay, Freetown in Sierra Leone’s legislative and presidential elections on 17 November 2012.

NATO is expected to make a decision Tuesday on Turkey's request for the deployment of missile defense batteries along its border with Syria. The decision is seen by Ankara as having both military and diplomatic significance. But such a deployment is strongly opposed by Russia and Iran.

L-r: The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France, addressing the OSCE's Permanent Council in Vienna, 8 November 2012.

Opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have stormed an office of his Muslim Brotherhood movement in the country's north, triggering a fight that killed one person and wounded at least 40 others.

Syrian rebels say they have captured a government helicopter base near Damascus as they try to close in on President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power in the capital.

Displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are often subject to indiscriminate attacks as fighting continues between government and rebel troops.

Twin suicide bombers have attacked a church inside a military base in Nigeria's Kaduna State, a volatile area known for sectarian and religious violence. Reuters news agency quotes a military spokesman as saying 11 people were killed and dozens injured.

Residents of Bunia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) protesting the capture by the M23 rebel group of Goma.

An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province yesterday, military officials reported.