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Special Representative Augustine Mahiga greets members of the Technical Selection Committee.

A scandal that ruined the career of prominent Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, and led to murder charges against his wife, has widened to include four of his former security chiefs being charged with covering up the crime.

Kigeme refugee camp in southern Rwanda – stretching as far as the eye can see.

The United States and Vietnam’s defense ministry have launched the first cleanup operation to rid a former air base of a toxic dioxin left from the Vietnam war. Although many people have welcomed the move, some say it is too little, too late to help generations of people suffering birth defects and diseases linked to the chemical.

Members of the Michigan National Guard's 1462nd Transportation Company recently trained Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division and Tennessee Army National Guard’s 230th Engineer Battalion, on the M1070 Heavy Equipment Transporter, or HET, during an eight-day, 80-hour course held at Camp Arifjan.

The Navy TICTs were comprised of soldiers from the 668th Vertical Construction Company from the Army Reserves out of New York and the 721st Engineer Company from the Army Reserves out of Texas.

South Dakota Army National Guard Spc. Kyle Griffith of the 842nd Horizontal Construction Company fills barricades at Combat Outpost Giro. Giro was so isolated from the rest of the project sites it had to be resupplied by helicopter.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) addresses Security Council meeting on Mali.

An adviser to Swaziland’s King Mswati III has denied accusations the country’s leader has refused to meet with opposition groups demanding democratic forms.

Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia Hussein Arab Isse (left) and UN Deputy Special Representative Peter de Clercq sign Action Plan to end killing and maiming of children.