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South Korea’s special forces in military drill
Han Jong-chan/Yonhap/Reuters Members of the South Korean special forces take part in a military drill in Yeongcheon, southeast of Seoul. The two Koreas technically remain at war under a truce that...
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Window cleaners at the UN
Denis Balibouse/Reuters Window cleaners clean windows on the United Nations European headquarters building in Geneva. Read more
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Li Bingbing and the Samburu tribe
Carl de Souza/AFP United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) goodwill ambassador and Chinese actress Li Bingbing (2nd R) dances with members of the Samburu tribe in the Samburu game reserve on...
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Opium farming in Afghanistan
Rahmat Gul/AP Afghan farmers collect raw opium as they work in a poppy field in Khogyani district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul in Afghanistan. Opium poppy cultivation has been increasing for a third...
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Confectioners in Afghanistan
Aref Karimi/AFP Afghan confectioners work at a traditional sweets factory in Herat. Some 9 million Afghans or 36 per cent of the population are living in “absolute poverty”, while another 37 per cent...
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Women at Mansi camp in Myanmar
Soe Than Win/AFP Rohingya women sit in front of their relief tent at the Mansi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe on Wednesday. A cyclone threatening to lash low-lying...
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Afghan girl in Herat
Aref Karimi/AFP An Afghan girl stands in the doorway of her house in the old sector of Herat on Wednesday. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned...
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Luminarium at the UN in Geneva
Denis Balibouse /Reuters People visit the Luminarium, an inflatable sculpture of British artist Alan Parkinson, before its opening at the grounds of the UN European headquarters in Geneva. Until June...
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Syrian rebels move their position
Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP Syrian rebel fighters belonging to the ‘Martyrs of Maaret al-Numan’ battalion leave their position after a range of shootings on Thursday in the southern Syrian town of Maaret...
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Afghan refugees return to their homeland
Rahmat Gul/AP After recently returning from Pakistan, Afghan refugees wait during the registration process at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees center near Kabul, Afghanistan, as they...
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Navigating the Panama canal
Rodrigo Arangua/AFP A cargo ship passes through the Panama Bay in Panama City on Thursday. Panama on Wednesday requested for UN inspectors to scrutinise the cargo on the North Korean ship seized near...
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Resting Syrian fighters
Khalil Ashawi /Reuters Free Syrian Army fighters rest inside a house during a rare light moment in Deir al-Zor, Syria. Read more
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Smiles in Kabul
S. Sabawoon/EPA Afghan children at their camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s independent human rights commission might lose its “A” status in the upcoming review, which might...
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Rehearsals for Armed Forces Day
Yonhap/EPA Parachuters in southern Seoul practising for a show on Armed Forces Day. The government designated October 1 as the Armed Forces Day to commemorate the date in 1950 when United Nations...
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Celebration of older people in India
Ajit Solanki/AP Elderly Indians take part in celebrations to mark the International Day of Older Persons at a home in Ahmadabad, India, on Tuesday. Much of the world is unprepared for the ballooning...
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Afghan refugees in Pakistan
Muhammed Muheisen/AP An Afghan refugee child sits on the roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan hosts more than 1.6m registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee...
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Tibetan protest in Geneva
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty A Tibetan activist outside the UN offices in Geneva bears the names on his back of protesters who have died from self-immolation – setting fire to themselves. The protest...
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Displaced in Lebanon
Hussein Malla/AP Syrian children at a refugee camp at Delhamiyeh, eastern Lebanon, wait outside their tent for the school bus. There are more than 800,000 refugees registered with the UN refugees...
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Queue for aid in Bangui
Fred Dufour/AFP People queue to receive aid near a camp for internally displaced persons in Bangui on Friday. Aid workers warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic capital...
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Shelter from violence in Sudan
Albert Gonzalez/AFP Fatima Abdala, from Barakutili, South Darfur, rests in her small shelter in the Kalma camp for Internally Displaced People. Violence has spread in the Darfur region in Sudan,...
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