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  1. KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 21: Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is shown around a UN funded housing project for displaced Palestinians, on March 21, 2010 in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Ban expressed solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urged Israel to end the Gaza blockade.
  2. KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 21: Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is shown around a UN funded housing project for displaced Palestinians, on March 21, 2010 in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Ban expressed solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urged Israel to end the Gaza blockade.
  3. KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 21: Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is shown around a UN funded housing project for displaced Palestinians, on March 21, 2010 in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Ban expressed solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urged Israel to end the Gaza blockade.
  4. KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 21: Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is shown around a UN funded housing project for displaced Palestinians, on March 21, 2010 in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Ban expressed solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urged Israel to end the Gaza blockade.
  5. KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 21: Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is shown around a UN funded housing project for displaced Palestinians, on March 21, 2010 in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Ban expressed solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urged Israel to end the Gaza blockade.
  6. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (C), waves to local residents as he visits on March 21, 2010 new houses built with UN-funding for Palestinians who lost their homes in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis during the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive. Ban crossed into Gaza in the morning, expressing solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urging an end to an Israeli blockade of the Hamas-run territory. The UN chief said the blockade caused 'unacceptable sufferings,' during his second visit to the impoverished coastal enclave since the 22-day Gaza War ended in January 2009.
  7. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (R), looks on March 21, 2010 at new houses built with UN-funding for Palestinians who lost their homes from the roof of one of the houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis during the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive. Ban crossed into Gaza in the morning, expressing solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urging an end to an Israeli blockade of the Hamas-run territory. The UN chief said the blockade caused 'unacceptable sufferings,' during his second visit to the impoverished coastal enclave since the 22-day Gaza War ended in January 2009.
  8. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (R), shakes the hand of a Palestinian girl during his visit on March 21, 2010 to new houses built with UN-funding for Palestinian families who lost their homes in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis during the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive. Ban crossed into Gaza in the morning, expressing solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urging an end to an Israeli blockade of the Hamas-run territory. The UN chief said the blockade caused 'unacceptable sufferings,' during his second visit to the impoverished coastal enclave since the 22-day Gaza War ended in January 2009.
  9. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (front), visits on March 21, 2010 new houses built with UN-funding for Palestinians who lost their homes in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis during the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive. Ban crossed into Gaza in the morning, expressing solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians and urging an end to an Israeli blockade of the Hamas-run territory. The UN chief said the blockade caused 'unacceptable sufferings,' during his second visit to the impoverished coastal enclave since the 22-day Gaza War ended in January 2009.
  10. Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer attends the annual meetings of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Cancun March 20, 2010.
  11. (L- R) United Nations Special Representative for Kosovo Lamberto Zannier, Prime Minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaci, Bosnia and Herzegovina's Chairman of the Council of the Ministers Nikola Spiric, Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, Slovenia's Prime Minister Borut Pahor, Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha, Montenegro's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski seat during the Balcan summit in Brdo pri Kranju March 20, 2010.
  12. United Nations Special Representative for Kosovo Lamberto Zannier (L) speaks with Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor (C) and Slovenia's Prime Minister Borut Pahor (R) during the Balcan summit in Brdo pri Kranju March 20, 2010.
  13. United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) Chief Karin Landgren (2nd L) arrives to pay her last respects to Nepali Congress Chairman Girija Prasad Koirala who died, in Kathmandu March 20, 2010.
  14. Russia�s President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meet at the Kremlin in Moscow March 18, 2010.
  15. Russia�s President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L) walk during their meeting, with Russia�s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the background, in Moscow's Kremlin March 18, 2010. The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships have no alternative to eventual direct negotiations, Ban said on Thursday, repeating criticism of plans for more Jewish homes near East Jerusalem.
  16. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L) shakes hands with Collective Security Treaty Organisation General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha during their meeting in Moscow March 18, 2010. The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships have no alternative to eventual direct negotiations, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday, repeating criticism of plans for more Jewish homes near East Jerusalem.

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  8. Thai anti-government protesters walk at the site of a mass rally in downtown Bangkok on March 21, 2010. Thailand was mired in political deadlock as demonstrators used their own blood to create a piece of protest art after refusing talks with the government. The Reds back ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and say the current government is illegitimate as it came to power with army backing via a 2008 parliamentary vote after a controversial court ruling removed his allies.
  9. Thai anti-government protesters including a Buddhist monk ride a three-wheeler at the site of a mass rally in downtown Bangkok on March 21, 2010. Thailand was mired in political deadlock as demonstrators used their own blood to create a piece of protest art after refusing talks with the government. The Reds back ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and say the current government is illegitimate as it came to power with army backing via a 2008 parliamentary vote after a controversial court ruling removed his allies.
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  11. Afghan policemen help an injured victim of a roadside bomb explosion load up the back of a car in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Two other civilians died and four were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a crowd of people celebrating the Afghan New Year at a mountaintop shrine in eastern Afghanistan, a police commander said.
  12. An Afghan police stands near a potion of a vehicle left following a roadside bomb explosion during a ceremony marking the New Year in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Two other civilians died and four were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a crowd of people celebrating the Afghan New Year at a mountaintop shrine in eastern Afghanistan, a police commander said.
  13. Palestinians who lost their houses during the Israeli offensive in Gaza protest as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, not seen, visits a destroyed house in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 21, 2010. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has entered the blockaded Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million people have been under lockdown by Israel and Egypt for nearly three years.
  14. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon , centre, visits a destroyed house in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 21, 2010. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has entered the blockaded Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million people have been under lockdown by Israel and Egypt for nearly three years.
  15. England's Kevin Pietersen bats against Bangladesh on the second day of their second test cricket match in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 21, 2010.
  16. England's Kevin Pietersen, left, and Jonathan Trott run between the wickets on the second day of their second test cricket match against Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 21, 2010.