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Honoring the current General Secretary of the United Nations Organization and native of Chungju, Ban Ki-Moon, the City of Chungju is set for the UN Peace Park project, which will be located in the northern part of the Natural Park Tangeumdae on the...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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There is an uproar in the world over indicting Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. However, nine Nobel peace prize recipients are bearing the torch...
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We want Anna Tibaijuka Back as the Head Of Nairobi Office. The replacement of the Director General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi Prof Anna Tibaijuka is unfair...
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As previously announced by the UN Secretary-General, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, or the international tribunal for Lebanon as we used to call it in the region,...
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As UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon arrives in Kathmandu on Friday on the third leg of his four Asian nation tour, only one thing in the country remains the unchanged:...
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The George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed “cash for trash”, is making all the headlines....
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The hackers led a cyber protest at UN’s official website against the US and Israel for killing children in the Middle East. For which, they hacked UN Secretary...
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Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-PM Benazir Bhutto.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to try to speed up troubled cyclone relief, his spokeswoman said on Sunday, as signs mounted of a...
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U.N. agencies and the World Bank pledged on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social...
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Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, has indicated he will skip the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics this summer, capping an...
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Top climate brokers from more than 160 nations launched a new round of talks in Bangkok on Monday aimed at setting out a plan for the most ambitious treaty yet for...
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Reading a highly informing and educative The Hindu article “Protecting an increasingly scarce resource” by UNSG B.Ki-moon, makes me really confused with an...
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Asian governments must devote more funds to preventing AIDS or face the risk the disease could kill nearly 500,000 people each year across the continent by 2020, a...
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Australia finally completed her ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Wednesday leaving United States the only country to banish the UN treaty on global warming....
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The Darfur peace talk still hangs in the balance. The four-year conflict in western Sudan still remains to be solved and with the rising strength of the insurgents, the...
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How long will it take for UN to find its spine? People are dying but UN is trying to formulate policies or rather more excuses.
As the reports of next peace talks...
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The much admired and respected Swede Staffan de Mistura, who has been at the U.N. for 30 years, was appointed as the new U.N. envoy to Iraq on Wednesday. He replaces...
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The chaotic scenario in Iraq shows no signs to subside and with that the people’s hope for a peaceful future are diminishing. The lethal car bombs, sectarian...
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The US often acts as a headstrong kid. When it wanted to barge into Iraq and do the cowboys act in 2003, it had disregarded the UN completely. Its moves to obtain an UN...
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