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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.

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.