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At least 37 people have been killed in a number of attacks in Baghdad.
"[The situation] is of mounting urgency," Ban had written to the UNSC on Monday.
The military confirms that a car bomb was used in the attack.
The announcement was made after a powerful explosion in Egypt killed 14 people on Tuesday.
The IMF says US GDP in 2014 will expand by more than the initial forecast rate of 2.6 per cent.
Two human rights groups say atrocities have been committed in the past few weeks.
Warmer-than-average temperatures across most of the world's ocean surfaces in November were behind the "anomalous warmth".
Its monthly bond-buying programme will now be reduced from $85 billion to $75 billion.
US District Court Judge Richard Leon said that legal challenges against the government's surveillance programme would likely succeed.
"This war is ending, not with victory, not with defeat, but with hope that Afghanistan is a better place," Prime Minister Tony Abbot said.
