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South Korea is asserting, based on debris it recovered from North Korea's rocket launch this month, that the reclusive state has significantly advanced its ballistic missile technology.

Staunch U.S. gun rights defenders and gun control advocates show few signs of finding common ground on ways to prevent mass shootings following an armed rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that killed 20 small children and several adults.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Egypt's Vice President Mahmoud Mekky has announced his resignation, after playing a key role in national unity talks called for by President Mohamed Morsi

The General Assembly.

Syrian children outside their UNHCR tent at Jordan’s Za’atri refugee camp.

Sailors with a special boat team extract from simulated enemy territory during a training exercise in the Cherry Point, N.C., area Dec. 12, 2012. The sailors inserted to investigate and recover a simulated hidden weapons cache.

UN peacekeepers in South Sudan with one of their helicopters.

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