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Palestinians filling plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah. -- The Israeli blockade on Gaza has made life more difficult for the inhabitants of the camp. Unemployment levels have increased dramatically, with a large proportion of the residents relying on UNRWA's nutritional and financial assistance.. Photo by AHMED DEEB/WN
Gaza   Israel   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Gaza Strip		  BBC News 
Gaza 'will not be liveable by 2020' - UN report
Mon 27 Aug 2012
The Gaza Strip will not be "a liveable place" by 2020 unless action is taken to improve basic services in the territory, according to a UN report. Basic infrastructure in water, health,... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
President-elect Francois Hollande waves from the balcony of the Socialist Party headquarters in Paris Monday May 7, 2012.
France   Photos   Syria   Violence   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war		  The Guardian 
François Hollande calls on Syrian rebels to form provisional government
Mon 27 Aug 2012
Move reveals differences with UK and US, which have been more guarded in their dealings with Syrian opposition groups François Hollande said France would recognise a provisional government of Syria.... (photo: AP / Michel Spingler)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the General Assembly on the situation on Syria at an informal plenary meeting where the Assembly also heard, via video link from Geneva, from Kofi Annan (shown on screen), UN/Arab League Joint Special Envoy on Syria. At right is Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser President of the Assemly's sixty-sixth session.  The Guardian  Mon 27 Aug 2012
UN chief urges speedy probe of Syria mass killings
... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Photos   Syria   UN   Violence   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
UNICEF calls for funds to help Syrian refugee children in Jordan  United Nations  Mon 27 Aug 2012
UNICEF calls for funds to help Syrian refugee children in Jordan
Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan are being sheltered at Za’atri camp. Photo: UNHCR/A. Eurdolian 27 August 2012 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is urgently appealing for additional... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen)
Photos   Refugee   Syria   Unicef   Wikipedia: Syria
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Kim Clijsters of Belgium celebrates winning her match against Francesca Schiavone of Italy at the Unicef Open grass court tennis tournament in Rosmalen, central Netherlands, Thursday, June 21, 2012. Clijsters won in two sets 6-3, 7-6. Al Jazeera Mon 27 Aug 2012
Clijsters ready for swansong
Three-time US Open champion Kim Clijsters is ready to give up the globe-trotting tennis star life at the age of 29 in order to spend more time as a wife and mother. But... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong)
Photos   Sports   Star   Tennis   Wikipedia: Kim Clijsters
Some 10,00 Syrian refugees stuck at Turkish border Herald Tribune Mon 27 Aug 2012
Some 10,00 Syrian refugees stuck at Turkish border
ANKARA, Turkey - Some 10,000 Syrian refugees are waiting on the Syrian side of the border as Turkey rushes to build more camps to accommodate the influx and carries out... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen)
Photos   Refugees   Syria   Turkey
Kenyan cleric 'with al-Shabab links' killed Al Jazeera Mon 27 Aug 2012
Kenyan cleric 'with al-Shabab links' killed
A radical Kenyan Muslim cleric blacklisted by the US and the UN for allegedly supporting Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab has been shot dead, his wife said. Aboud Rogo... (photo: UN / STUART PRICE)
Muslim   Photos   Qaeda   Somalia   Wikipedia: Somalia
Villagers carry the body of Ghassan Ali, 40, who was killed during clashes between the Free Syrian Army and the government forces during his funeral in Sarmin, north of Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. BBC News Mon 27 Aug 2012
Timeline: Syria's bloodiest days
Almost every day of the uprising against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has brought new reports of shootings, deaths and injuries. Reports are hard to... (photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd)
Photos   Politics   Syria   Violence   Wikipedia: Timeline of the Syrian civil war
A man filling gallons with water from a tap in Sanaa city, Yemen. The Guardian Mon 27 Aug 2012
Time running out for solution to Yemen's water crisis
Sana'a risks becoming first capital in world to run out of viable water supply as Yemen's streams and natural aquifers run dry... (photo: Creative Commons)
Nature   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: 2011 Yemeni revolution   Yemen
Fishermen Gulf News Mon 27 Aug 2012
Fishermen told to use echo-friendly motors
Dubai: The Ministry of Environment and Water has encouraged Emirati fishermen to use echo-friendly motors to cut down on pollution. The step comes as part of the efforts... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Environment   Photos   Pollution   Water   Wikipedia: Fisherman
Samantha Stosur The Washington Times Mon 27 Aug 2012
US Open champion Stosur among fittest on WTA Tour
NEW YORK (AP) - Defending U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur says she’s never done a biceps curl in her life. Yet the 28-year-old Australian with the impressive... (photo: Creative Commons / paddynapper)
Photos   Sports   Star   Tennis   Wikipedia: Samantha Stosur
Black Bear is found in Zoo Gulf News Mon 27 Aug 2012
Zoo brings Arabs and Jews together
Occupied Jerusalem: Gripping the guardrail by a small lake in Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo, six-year-old Zeinab and seven-year-old Tali gaze in fascination at Siamang gibbons... (photo: WN / Emico Silalahi)
Animal   Family   Jerusalem   Photos   Wikipedia: Zoo
Seventeen civilians beheaded in Afghanistan's Helmand Joy Online Mon 27 Aug 2012
Seventeen civilians beheaded in Afghanistan's Helmand
Seventeen civilians have been beheaded in Afghanistan, local officials say, with 10 Afghan soldiers killed in a separate incident. The civilians died in Musa Qala... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghanistan   Photos   Taliban   Violence   Wikipedia: Taliban


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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in front of dozens of pupils on the first day of the school year in the Jewish settlement of Efrat in the West Bank Netanyahu: Israel will strike Lebanese state in case of Hezbollah provocation Ha'aretz
In this Saturday, April 14, 2012 photo, fighters from the Ansar Dine group, flying the group's black flag, instruct local residents in how to follow Shariah, as they stop in a market area of Timbuktu, Mali. West Africa's regional bloc is recommending the deployment of a regional force to Mali after Tuareg rebels declared an independent state, dubbed Azawad, following a military coup last month. The fighters are divided between a secular group and an Islamist faction that wants to impose Shariah law in Mali's moderate north. Insurgency in Northern Mali: Diplomacy or Counterinsurgency? Joy Online
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UN agency alarmed by health situation for refugees in South Sudan UN agency alarmed by health situation for refugees in South Sudan CNTV
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Syrian boys play on top of a destroyed military tank next to the rubble of a damaged mosque in the city of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. Syria and U.S.-War Ghosts Past, Present and Future WorldNews.com
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In this image released by the Egyptian President, Egyptian Field Marshal Gen. Hussein Tantawi, left, presents the "shield of the Armed Forces" — the Egyptian military's highest honor, to President Mohammed Morsi, right, at a handover following his inauguration, at a military base east of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 30, 2012. President Morsi and His Critics The New York Times
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