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In the foreground: the remains of the Ministry of Interior’s Civilian Affairs office after Israeli bombardments in Gaza City.

The Israeli military says its artillery has fired into Syria in response to gunfire aimed at Israeli troops in the Golan Heights.

Smoke rises over the city following Israeli air strikes in Gaza.

Within hours of the announcement that President Barack Obama had won a second term on Nov. 12, British Prime Minister David Cameron moved to pull the Middle East trigger on a global war. While touring the region, from Saudi Arabia, to Kuwait and Jordan, the British leader announced plans to escalate the military campaign to overthrow the Bashar Assad government in Syria, by boosting arms shipments, including heavy weaponry, to the Syrian rebels.

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed the top military commander of Hamas with Israel warning other Hamas members not to "show their faces above ground" in the next few days.

A Congolese woman washes clothes at a hillside camp for the internally displaced in North Kivu's Masisi District

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon receives Independent Review Panel on Sri Lanka report from ASG Charles Petrie.

A group of Internally displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Reported Deaths Across Syria - updated Nov 5, 2012