[caption id="attachment_55249246" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken on December 4, 2012, shows electricity pylons erected along a main road in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. (FAYEZ NURELDINE…
[caption id="attachment_55249270" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libya's Brega refinery and oil terminal is pictured at night on March 11, 2014. (ABDULLAH DOMA/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]
Prime…
[caption id="attachment_55249196" align="alignnone" width="620"] Catherine Ashton (L), High Representative of the Union of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, and Iranian…
[caption id="attachment_55249231" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama leaves The Hague in the Netherlands at the conclusion of a Nuclear Security Summit. (POOL/BART MAAT)[…
[caption id="attachment_55249173" align="alignnone" width="620"] People hold placards as they protest against Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after the government blocked access to…
[caption id="attachment_55249183" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken on May 28, 2013, shows the Blue Nile in Guba, Ethiopia, during its diversion ceremony in preparation for the…
[caption id="attachment_55249157" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisia Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa speaks to the media before taking off for the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a five-day…
[caption id="attachment_55249111" align="alignnone" width="620"] Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah alights from a plane as he arrives at Amman airport on May 17, 2010 in Amman,…
[caption id="attachment_55249081" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu meet during Barzani's…
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