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It was the same before the two world wars of the 20th Century: The preparations for the great war were going full blast, and everyone should have recognized the handwriting on the wall. But the masses of people were busy living their day-to-day lives, going along to get along. Those who sounded the alarm were few, and their words were ignored.

A cholera treatment centre in Haiti.

MONUSCO peacekeepers and FARDC elements on joint patrol in Bunagana, North Kivu, DRC, while a UN helicopter hovers.

Indian authorities have charged six men with murder, following the death of a student who was brutally gang-raped earlier this month on a bus in New Delhi.

Kyrgyz law-enforcement officials take part in an OSCE-supported hostage-simulation exercise in Osh, 2 November 2012.

Testing of the UAV’s precision placement of a payload proved successful. An operator extends the robotic arm of the modified V-Bat UAV built by MLB Company of Santa Clara, California.

This Friday marks the first anniversary of the killing of 34 Kurdish smugglers by a mistaken Turkish air strike. The incident remains contentious in Turkey, with pressure both nationally and internationally on the government to punish those responsible.

Ruined and abandoned house in the northern Central African Republic.

The Jubilee Campaign, a US-based organization advocating on behalf of persecuted Christians has petitioned the White House to designate Boko Haram a “foreign terrorist organization.”

Ambassador Desra Percaya of Indonesia, Chairperson of the General Assembly’s First Committee, presides over the opening of the Committee’s week-long general debate.