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RSSPESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) — The deadly suicide bomb attack at a Pakistani army center, reportedly by a teenager, has “appalled” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a spokeswoman said.
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UNITED NATIONS: With at least 66 people having been executed in Iran in January alone, including several political activists, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief...
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The United States often likes to deride this or that nation as “rogue”. Going against the mainstream and refusing to adhere to internationally accepted...
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Christmas Eve bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos that killed at least 32 people and injured more than...
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The Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo said Tuesday night that he would accept a “commission of investigation” from overseas to examine the results of the...
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Israel is worried, according to press reports in the country, that the United States will not “rush to veto” a planned U.N. Security Council resolution...
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The UN Security Council has urged all parties in Ivory Coast to recognise opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as president and extended the mandate of the peacekeeping...
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WikiLeaks has proved to be a bit of a stumbling block when it comes to Zimbabwean politics. Mugabe’s wife is suing a South African newspaper for publishing the story...
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BRUSSELS/NEW DELHI: Despite the considerable momentum backing its claims for a permanent UNSC seat, New Delhi will not bend backwards to seek support from China for the...
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In contrast to last year’s Copenhagen meeting, this year’s United Nations meeting on climate change has all but gone unnoticed. Graham Readfearn examines...
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Over the past month about 1,200 Haitians have died in an outbreak of cholera while thousands more have sought treatment in hospitals.
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Haiti’s cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN has rejected the charge that Nepali peacekeepers in Haiti brought cholera to the Caribbean nation which claimed more than 1,100...
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A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who lives in the eastern Dominican...
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NAIROBI – The 12 nominations presented by Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Spain for inclusion on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity...
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The U.N. Security Council, in a special meeting on Sudan, said urgent action is needed to assure a peaceful referendum in January on independence for southern Sudan. ...
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MEXICO CITY — Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000...
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In less than a month the major United Nations climate change conference of 2010 will commence in Cancun, Mexico.
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At least one man has been shot dead in clashes with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, amid a continuing cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900 people.
UN troops fired...
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Crowds hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest over the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis
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Recently Brazil elected a new president, its first woman ever, the chief of staff of the departed President known simply as ‘Lulu’. It was a testament to...
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GENOCIDE: AFRICA BY DEAD RECKONING
This is a telling excerpt from a chapter in JIHAD REDISCOVERED
ROMANCING IN TURMOIL
Is there a difference...
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The UN has appealed for nearly $164m (£102m) to fight a cholera outbreak in Haiti which has now claimed 724 lives.
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United Nations-backed talks between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a main rebel militia kicked off today, in a bid to end the upsurge...
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Canada under prime minister Harper is one of the most noxious governments around.
Harper is a militant neo-conservative and Evangelical Christian who is so notorious...
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As a young officer, working for the Government of India, I was posted in Srinagar in the early 70’s. The position I held was created in the wake of ‘71 war,...
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This week, Mugabe (together with an 80-person entourage) is at the United Nations Headquarters in new York, and was given the floor…
Why is it that international...
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World leaders will convene for another day Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, where representatives from member nations are expected to discuss various...
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When an all party delegation tried to bring out solution of Kashmir problem, an appeal came from United Nations on Sep 22, where UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon urged...
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Sudan’s progress on organizing a key referendum in January is “too slow,” Norway’s diplomatic chief has warned about the vote over whether the...
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President Hugo Chavez on Friday branded as “imperial vulgarity” a U.S. government report that faults Venezuela for not fulfilling its commitments against drug...
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Although there are signs of improvement in Niger, which is in the midst of a severe food crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that child...
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The Obama administration, worried that an upcoming referendum in Sudan could lead to renewed bloodshed, has begun an urgent diplomatic effort to rescue the...
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For the first time in 15 years, the number of hungry people in the world has declined. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 925 million...
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I have never had much respect for the United Nations, and for some of its agencies, like the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), I have absolutely none. The UNSC, in charge...
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The controversial settlement ends years of legal battles and could help Iraq emerge from United Nations sanctions put in place two decades ago – a step Iraqi leaders...
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as he sought to defuse rising tensions over a...
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A United Nations-backed tribunal will issue its first verdict here Monday after years of investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide and arguing the case for justice in...
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It is hard to comprehend the sheer scale of violence against women in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rape is commonly used as a weapon in a region...
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Serbia bowed to intense European and US pressure today by dropping a challenge to Kosovo’s independence at the United Nations, clearing the way for settlement...
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Left to Right: Rabbi Marc Schneier, Chairman, World Jewish Congress American Section; Alexander Machkevich, Author and President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; Joseph Grieboski, President, Institute on Religion and Public Policy; and Evelyn Sommer, Chair...
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