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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, shares a word with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a Mediterranean Summit round table meeting at the Grand Palais in Paris, Sunday July 13, 2008. The Union for the Mediterranean will bring together leaders of 43 nations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, some of whom have never before sat around a single table. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Forty-three nations, including Israel and Arab states, pledged Sunday to work for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction at the close of a summit to launch an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean aimed at securing peace across the restive region.

An afghan child walks near the Indian Embassy with security barriers around the compound after a suicide attack on Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday July 10, 2008, The suicide bomber who detonated his vehicle at the gates of the Embassy in Kabul intended to destroy the embassy itself, the Indian ambassador to Afghanistan said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - A group of villagers in northwestern Afghanistan used a machine gun, sticks and stones to kill two Taliban militants and chase 10 others away, a provincial police chief said Thursday.

An unidentified relative of Alexia Belem Guerrero touches her coffin during the burial ceremony at a cemetery in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 12, 2008. Moreno, who was 12, was shot in the head while riding in a vehicle as she was returning from school, apparently caught in the crossfire during a gun battle between drug smugglers. She is part of an alarming trend of children being caught in the increasingly bloody battle for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Diario de Juarez, Luis Torres)AP - Twelve-year-old Alexia Belen Moreno was afraid living in her father’s house in Ciudad Juarez, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody war. She begged to move in with her mother just across the border in El Paso, Texas. Her parents agreed — but asked her to stay a few more weeks to finish school.

In this Oct. 14, 2006 file photo, farmer Andrew Higham looks over his parched land on his Gunnedah property in northwestern New South Wales, Australia. A decade-long drought in Australia’s most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday, July 10, 2008.(AP Photo/Peter Lorimer, File)AP - A decade-long drought in Australia’s most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday.

A man leans on his shovel as he stands on a dry field on the outskirts of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq, a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq — a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water.