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The deadliest unrest in China's western Xinjiang region in four years is drawing attention to long-running tensions between the area's ethnic Uighurs and its Han Chinese rulers.

Special Representative Bert Koenders (on screen) briefing the Security Council by video-link from the Malian capital, Bamako.

Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks to journalists following talks between senior United States, Russian and UN officials.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington is not looking for a confrontation with Moscow over former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. Snowden is in Russia avoiding arrest for disclosing secret details of U.S. government surveillance of telephone and Internet activities.

Afghan forces on repelled an early morning Taliban attack on an entrance to the Presidential Palace compound, killing all of the militants involved. The attack took place as a U.S. envoy was in the Afghan capital to push along peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

Fierce fighting between Lebanese security forces and gunmen loyal to a hard-line Sunni Muslim cleric raged for a second day in the southern city of Sidon leaving dozens of soldiers and militants dead.

Soaring summer temperatures, overcrowding and worsening hygiene are the latest threats facing some 4 million children affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria, UNICEF said.

Wide view of the General Assembly Hall.

The controversial new governor of Luxor has resigned his post, as political jockeying continues ahead of mass protests across Egypt later this month.