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Pakistan's government says it will put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, which is punishable by death or life imprisonment. While the move is unprecedented in a country where top army generals have long enjoyed immunity from prosecution, skeptics are questioning the timing of the announcement.

French President Francois Hollande says his government will maintain sanctions and pressure against Iran until he is certain that it has renounced a suspected nuclear weapons program.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) can confirm it received the original referral from the Toronto Police Service on 23 April, 2012.

The sixth in the series of Schiller Institute conferences for a New Paradigm for Civilization, which began approximately one year ago in Frankfurt, Germany, took place in the Los Angeles area on Nov. 2. Over the course of 12 hours, leaders of the LaRouche movement and a number of international guests from Asia, presented a gripping picture of the future mankind can and must achieve, through developing the Pacific Basin and ending the grip of the Anglo-Dutch empire.

The IAEA conducted the two-week International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) mission at the request of the Government of Australia. The mission reviewed the country's nuclear security-related legislative and regulatory framework, physical protection systems at Australia's only nuclear facility - a research reactor operated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) - and security arrangements applied to the transport of nuclear and other radioactive materials.

Most businesses and schools in Libya's capital are closed Sunday after residents called for a strike to protest recent deadly violence by militias in Tripoli.

Continuing his visit to Estonia on Saturday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored the vital role of technology and innovation in finding solutions to some of the most pressing challenges such as advancing the global sustainable development agenda.

The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has been affected by climate change.

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L-r: The Co-Chairs of Geneva International Discussions - OSCE Chairmanship Special Representative for Conflicts Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort of the EU and Ambassador Antti Turunen of the UN, Speaking to the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, 14 November 2013.

Amb. Liu Jieyi of China.