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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) meets with volunteers of “My World,” a UN-led global survey of people’s priorities for a better world.

A regional peacekeeper checks an abandoned home in one of many deserted villages lining the road south of Bossangoa, Central African Republic.

Mexican officials say a shipment of highly radioactive waste has been found near an abandoned stolen truck that was carrying the material. Authorities have not yet detained any suspects.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said China's new air defense zone in the East China Sea has created "significant apprehension" in the region.

Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme Sigrid Kaag.

NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels are urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security pact with the United States that would allow foreign troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of the NATO combat mission there next year. President Karzai wants to delay that signing until after Afghan elections.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced that one of its commanders has been killed and is blaming neighboring Israel for his death.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Beijing for talks that are expected to focus on China's controversial air defense zone, which includes islands that are also claimed by Washington's ally, Japan.

Emergency Relief Coordinator Vlaerie Amos speaks to journalists after the Security Council consultations on the humanitarian situation in Syria.

Head of Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous (second right), inspects an Unmanned/Unarmed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that will be used in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, during a ceremony in Goma.