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A Syrian woman carries buckets to fill with water at a refugee camp at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon. More than 812,000 Syrians in Lebanon are urban refugees, who live not in camps but in cities and towns. (Associated Press)

Syrian war refugees find crowds, crime, contagion at camps

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** An internally displaced Rohingya man pushes a rickshaw past makeshift tents at a camp for Rohingya people in Sittwe in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine state on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen, expected later this week. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Boat carrying 70 Muslim Rohingya sinks off Myanmar

Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waits for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrive for their meeting at Villa Taverna, the US Ambassador's residence in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Claudio Peri, Pool)

Kerry praises international weapons inspectors for quick work in Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

BAROOTI: A daughter’s plea for mother’s life

By Shahabeh Barooti

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media at the end of a two-day EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Migration, as well as an upcoming Eastern Partnership summit, topped the agenda in Friday's meeting of EU leaders. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Germany, Brazil press U.N. to stop U.S. Internet spying

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama, Power won’t challenge U.N.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Age of Global Warming: A History’

By Wayne T. Brough - Special to the Washington Times

Sadio Balde (left), vice president of the Moroccan Council for Sub-Saharan migrants, joins dozens of Moroccan and foreign activists in a protest Nov. 9, 2012, outside a court in Rabat, Morocco, where Council president Laye Camara is being tried for illegally selling alcohol and cigarettes. Colleagues of Camara say the charges are trumped-up and are part of a widespread crackdown on legal and illegal black African migrants to this North African kingdom that lies just across the narrow Straits of Gibraltar from Europe. (Associated Press)

KEENE: A homeland for deserving Western Saharans

By David Keene

** FILE ** In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapon, at U.N. Headquarters. Saudi Arabia is rejecting its seat on the U.N. Security Council and says the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

EDITORIAL: A U.N. raft of rogues

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Iraqi Shiite Muslim women attend the Eid al-Adha prayer, outside the party headquarters of the Supreme Islamic Council, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Muslims all over the world are celebrating Eid al-Adha by sacrificing sheep, goats, cows and camels, to commemorate the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son, Ismail, on God's command. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq: Wave of car, suicide blasts kill at least 61

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Hague Odyssey’

By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times

A damaged vehicle smolders after firefighters extinguish a fire on it following two mortar rounds struck the Abu Roumaneh area in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. Syria&#8217;s state news agency said two mortar rounds struck an upscale neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least one child and injuring a dozen people. (AP Photo)

Mortar shells hit near chemical inspectors’ hotel in Syria, killing child

Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Wednesday Sept. 7, 2011, file photo Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) comments on Libya during a press conference in The Hague . The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Global chemical watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Karl Ritter and Mark Lewis - Associated Press

Smoke rises after a mortar shell hits a residential area during fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels in Maaret al-Numan in the Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Rebels Wednesday overran a military post near the southern city of Daraa, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group. Opposition fighters late last month also captured a nearby military base that previously served as the customs office on the outskirts of Daraa. (AP Photo)

Chemical weapons inspectors visit 3 Syria sites

By Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

Illustration by Clement for The National Post, Toronto

HANSON: Netanyahu and the end of days

By Victor Davis Hanson

Christopher Harper

HARPER: U.N.’s latest climate report buries inconvenient facts

By Christopher Harper

** FILE ** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presides over his weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu warns White House about Iran

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

INHOFE AND MORAN: The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is dead on arrival

By James M. Inhofe and Jerry Moran

** FILE ** In this Dec. 16, 2009, file photo, steam and smoke rises from a coal power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. By how much is something governments and scientists meeting in Stockholm will try to pin down with as much precision as possible Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in a seminal report on global warming. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Climate panel: Warming ‘extremely likely’ man-made

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press