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Medics assist a man lying on a bed who appears to be shaking uncontrollably as a U.N. inspection team visits a makeshift hospital in Moadamiyeh, a suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus, in an image taken from video footage provided an anti-Assad activist group. (Associated Press)

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In this image made from video, U.N. vehicles leave the entry area of a hotel after U.N. weapon inspectors get off their vehicles upon their arrival in Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 18, 2013. A team of U.N. weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus on Sunday for a long-delayed mission to investigate the alleged use of chemical arms in Syria's civil war. (Associated Press)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, shakes hands with Israel's President Shimon Peres after a joint press conference in the Presidents residence in Jerusalem, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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**FILE** African Union peacekeepers take position outside the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 19, 2013. Al Qaeda-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks in a security council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, holds Malala Yousafzai's hand while posing for photographers, Friday, July 12, 2013, at United Nations headquarters. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrated her 16th birthday on Friday addressing the United Nations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)