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Army 1st Lt. Torrence Yarborough, from the South Carolina Army National Guard's 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, meets with a role-playing coffee shop owner during a Kosovo Forces training exercise at the Joint Multi-national Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with Iranian Foreign Minister Aliakbar Salehi.

Nuclear tests remain a threat to human health and global stability.

Joint MONUSCO/FARDC patrol in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

A young new arrival at Jordan’s Za’tari camp. His family fled violence in Syria’s Daraa governorate.

Two United Nations employees have been sentenced by a Myanmar court in connection with the violent unrest that recently gripped the country’s Rakhine state in June, a spokesperson for the Organization said today.

Maxwell Gaylard, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, and other UN officials at press conference launching new report.

Spc. Andrew Simmons, and Army Sgt. Adam Priebe, both assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), provide security outside the Shigal Girl's School in Kunar Province, Afghanistan while members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Kunar visit the school to check on the status of construction. The members of Company A serve as the PRT’s security element and have earned high praise from the PRT commander.

Syrians were burying dozens of bodies Sunday, as activists said the death toll from a five-day massacre in a town near Damascus has reached at least 320.

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