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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.

Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria.

An Egyptian woman casts her ballot in Giza, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012

Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for the crisis in Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, briefs reporters.

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.