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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, on Sept. 27.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a diagram in the shape of a bomb that he said shows the progress of Iran's nuclear enrichment progress at the United Nation's General Assembly on Thursday.

NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that a “clear red line” be set to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, telling the U.N. General Assembly that with a nuclear Iran, no one in the world would be safe.

In a speech at the U.N. Thursday, Netanyahu said that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to build a bomb by next summer. He said his "red line" to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is to stop it from accumulating that uranium -- because it would impossible to know when Iran has achieved the next step: building a detonator to fire a weapon. Read the full story.

Words between Israel and Iran have not been kind at the General Assembly. On Wednesday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad complained about 'continued threats' by 'uncivilized Zionists,' according to NBC News.

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Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority, organizes his papers during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 27.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly, where he asked that the Palestinian U.N. status be upgraded to a "nonmember state," according to NBC News:

This statement is in contrast to last year, when Palestine asked the U.N. Security Council to recognize it as a full member state. That bid failed.

"Despite all the complexities of the prevailing reality and all the frustrations that abound, we say before the international community there is still a chance - maybe the last - to save the two-state solution and to salvage peace," Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly Thursday through a translator. Read the full story.

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United Nations and emergency personnel gather at the site of a roadside bomb attack on a U.N. peacekeepers' vehicle in Bourj al-Shamali, near the port city of Tyre, Lebanon on Dec. 9.

AP Reports:

BEIRUT — A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five French soldiers and a Lebanese bystander, officials said.

This was the third bombing this year targeting the international force known as UNIFIL, which is deployed to keep the peace along Lebanon's southern border with Israel. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Read the full story: 5 French peacekeepers wounded in Lebanon bombing

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A United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon soldier who was injured by a road bomb during a patrol, speaks with a medic, in Tyre, south Lebanon, on Dec. 9.

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A Red Cross member stands near a damaged U.N. vehicle on the outskirts of the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon on Dec. 9.

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A wounded French U.N. peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon stands next to a Red Cross member after receiving treatment at the site where a bomb exploded on the outskirts of the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon on Dec. 9.

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Palestinians hold a flag and throw a stone in front of a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the controversial Israeli barrier, during clashes with Israeli troops at Qalandiya checkpoint, near the West bank city of Ramallah on Sept. 23. Israeli security forces were on high alert after Friday prayers at a major Muslim mosque in Jerusalem and surrounding Palestinian districts given a deepening diplomatic deadlock over the Palestinians' application for U.N. membership.

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Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian man suspected of throwing stones during clashes in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud Sept. 23. Israeli security forces were on high alert after Friday prayers at a major Muslim mosque in Jerusalem and surrounding Palestinian districts given a deepening diplomatic deadlock over the Palestinians' application for U.N. membership.

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Palestinians evacuate a man who was shot dead by Israeli troops on Sept. 23, in clashes which erupted after Jewish settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra, south of Nablus. The man, 37-year-old Issam Badran, died after being hit in the neck by a live bullet fired by troops according to Palestinian hospital sources.

 From msnbc.com news services:

UNITED NATIONS — Nearly two decades after embarking on historic peace talks with Israel, Palestinians prepared to sidestep that troubled route on Friday to seek U.N. recognition of an independent state — hoping to leverage this dramatic move on the world stage to realize their dream of an independent homeland.

Earlier in the week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rebuffed an intense, U.S.-led effort to sway him from the statehood bid, saying he would submit the application to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon as planned. A top aide, Mohammed Ishtayeh, said Thursday that Abbas asked Ban and the Council's Lebanese president this month to process the application without delay.

"We're going without any hesitation and continuing despite all the pressures," Abbas told members of the Palestinian diaspora at a hotel in New York on Thursday night. "We seek to achieve our right and we want our independent state."

For the full story of the Palestinians' UN statehood bid click here.  Previous PhotoBlog posts also look at life in Ramallah beyond the protest lines.

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A pro-Ouattara fighter of the FRCI (Republican Force of Ivory Coast), wearing a gas mask, prepares for the so-called "final assault" in front of the Golf Hotel in Abidjan on April 5. Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo is hunkered down in a bunker at his residence in Abidjan, after calling for a ceasefire as rival forces cornered him, the UN mission said.

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A soldier loyal to Alassane Ouattara moves along a road as fighting flares across Abidjan on April 4. Forces loyal to Ouattara streamed into the city from the north on Monday.

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Explosions are seen at a camp of soldiers loyal to Laurent Gbagbo during an attack by U.N. and French armed forces in Treichville in Abidjan on April 4.

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In this photo taken on Sunday, April 3, and made available on April 5, a UN peacekeeper from Jordan looks up as he and others return fire on troops supporting Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo during a patrol in the streets of Abidjan.

Follow the latest developments in Ivory Coast, take a look at a timeline of the country's turbulent history and see more images on PhotoBlog.