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Special Coordinator for Mideast Peace Robert Serry (right) greets a Palestinian boy during his visit to Gaza on 25 November 2012.

A volcano looms over Mugunga III camp in the DRC where food rations have been distributed to thousands of forcibly displaced people.

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.