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Stop the Plunder of Africa

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KOFI ANNAN - May. 09 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Stop the Plunder of Africa

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UN investigating Syria chemical weapons use

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 27 (News Report) - A UN spokesman has said that investigators from the world body have started collecting evidence outside Syria on the suspected use of chemical weapons. Ban Ki-moon has written to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a new request for access.

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Congress pushes for ‘Internet Freedom’ as U.N. showdown looms

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Apr. 22 (News Analysis) - The House is pushing forward in an effort to block a United Nations-related group from potentially allowing countries to censor the Internet, before an international showdown this fall.

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UN arms trade treaty: Will it receive US Senate approval?

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 11 (News Analysis) - Why the new initiative is so controversial among US conservatives. ...

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South Korea raises alert with North to 'vital threat'

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 10 (Special Report) - 'Anytime now' North Korea is believed to have completed preparations for a missile launch after it moved two Musudan missiles to its east coast, In anticipation, the South Korea-US Combined Forces have raised their alert level to Watchcon 2, to increase surveillance monitoring, Yonhap quoted a senior military official as saying..

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UN General Assembly to vote on arms treaty

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 02 (News Report) - The UN General Assembly is due to vote on what would be the first treaty to regulate the $70bn global trade on conventional arms. The vote on Tuesday comes a week after Iran, Syria and North Korea blocked the accord by consensus despite widespread suppor

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Religious Leaders Call on President Obama to Reconsider His Position on Drone Strikes

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Mar. 30 (Opinion) - Six religious leaders from across the country joined together during the week of Easter to call on President Obama to reexamine his position on drone strikes. In briefings and explanations to the American public President Obama's administration has used Just War Theory to justify CIA and U.S. military use of drone strikes throughout the world. Joining forces with director and producer Robert Greenwald, these rabbis, reverends, and priests created a short video sharing why drone strikes in Pakistan violate Just War Theory.

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Why invading Iraq was a terrible mistake

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Hans Blix - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - I headed the U.N. inspections in Iraq at the time of the war 10 years ago. Today, I look again at the reasons why this terrible mistake -- and violation of the U.N. charter -- took place and explore if any lessons be drawn. Here are my thoughts.

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UN report suggests Palestinian rocket killed baby in Gaza

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 12 (News Report) - It is likely an errant Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli air strike, killed the baby of a BBC picture editor during fighting in Gaza last November, a UN report has indicated, challenging the widely believed story behind an image that became a symbol of what Palestinians said was Israeli aggression.

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China Knocks on Iceland's Door

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Einar Benediktsson, Thomas R. Pickering - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - As polar ice recedes, Iceland has become a strategic gateway to energy sources and new trade routes — and Beijing is showing its interest.

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China Says It Won't Forsake North Korea, Despite Support for UN Sanctions

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jane Perlez - Mar. 09 (News Report) - China's foreign minister said Saturday that Beijing would not abandon North Korea, reiterating China's longstanding position that dialogue, not sanctions, was the best way to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons.

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US offers tough new UN sanctions against North Korea

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Mar. 05 (News Analysis) - Backed by China, the United States introduced a U.N. resolution Tuesday that would impose fresh financial and diplomatic sanctions on North Korea.

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For First Time, Baby Cured of H.I.V., Doctors Say

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:20:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ANDREW POLLACK, DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - Mar. 03 (News Report) - Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could lead to more aggressive treatment of babies infected at birth and a sharp reduction in the number of children living with

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A Chance to Right a Wrong in Haiti

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Louise C. Ivers - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - Evidence shows that the United Nations inadvertently started a cholera outbreak that has since killed 8,000 people. It has a moral obligation to help end the crisis.

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Shahbag protesters versus the Butcher of Mirpur

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tahmima Anam - Feb. 13 (News) - Abdul Quader Mollah has finally been convicted of war crimes committed in Bangladesh in 1971. Now a huge popular protest in Dhaka's Shahbag district is demanding the death penalty It all began with a victory sign. When Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary-general of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party, emerged from the supreme court on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 February, he turned to the press waiting outside, smiled, and made a victory sign. An odd reaction for a man just sentenced to life in prison. Mollah smiled because for him, a man convicted of beheading a poet, raping an 11-year-old girl and shooting 344 people during the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence – charges that have earned him the nickname the Butcher of Mirpur – the life sentence came as a surprise . Earlier this month, a fellow accused, Abul Kalam Azad, who is reputed to have fled to Pakistan, was sentenced to death in absentia . When Mollah emerged from the courthouse, a group of online activists and bloggers ...

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Op-Ed Contributor: Why Palestine Should Take Israel to Court in The Hague

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By GEORGE BISHARAT - Jan. 30 (Opinion) - LAST week, the Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, declared that if Israel persisted in its plans to build settlements in the currently vacant area known as E-1, which lies between Palestinian East Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adum

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Mercury-Emissions Treaty Adopted

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By The Associated Press - Jan. 19 (News Report) - The treaty will set enforceable limits on mercury emissions, which is widely used in chemical production and small-scale mining, and exclude, phase out or restrict some products that contain mercury.

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Human trafficking networks flourish in Yemen

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - By Rebecca Murray - Jan. 10 (Special Report) - Aden, Yemen - Twenty-one-year-old Aisha clings to her two children as she recounts her tale of horror. Growing up in the Somali capital Mogadishu, she fell in love and bore a child out of wedlock four years ago. When her family threatened her life for de

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In Fields and Markets, Guatemalans Feels Squeeze of Biofuel Demand

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL - Jan. 06 (Special Report) - Biofuel expansion has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of farmland; both are felt keenly in Guatemala, with its corn-based diet and land owned by a handful of families.

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Editorial: Haiti’s Long Road

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 02 (Editorial) - Three years after the earthquake, recovery is distant and progress slow.

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At Year's End, News of a Global Health Success

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Tina Rosenberg - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.

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More polio vaccination workers killed in Pakistan

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Dec. 19 (News Report) - Three separate attacks on Wednesday leave two dead and one in a critical condition in latest assaults on campaign to stamp out crippling disease Three more workers in a polio eradication campaign have been shot in Pakistan, and two of them killed, the latest in a string of attacks that has partially halted the UN-backed global health campaign to stamp out the crippling disease. Following the violence, the United Nations in Pakistan has pulled all staff involved in the immunisation campaign off the streets, spokesman Michael Coleman said. There were at least three separate attacks on Wednesday. In the north-western district of Charsadda, men on motorbikes shot dead a woman and her driver, police and health officials said. Hours earlier, a male health worker was shot and badly wounded in the nearby provincial capital of Peshawar. He remains in a critical condition, said a doctor at the Lady Reading hospital where he is being treated. Four other women health workers were shot at but ...

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Doha: Weirdly Tame and Dispirited - New York Times (blog)

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert B. Semple Jr. - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - At the annual climate change negotiations there were no people in polar bear suits, and there was no solid agreement.

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Susan Rice withdraws as candidate for secretary of state

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung, Anne Gearan - Dec. 14 (News Report) - U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from the list of candidates for secretary of state Thursday afternoon, ending a weeks-long fight with Republicans over statements she made on television talk shows shortly after the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11. Read full article >>

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North Korean rocket launch condemned internationally

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Simon Tisdall, Justin McCurry, Tania Branigan - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Fears about renewed North Korean military aggression sparked by Pyongyang's successful launch of a long-range rocket on Wednesday are likely to boost rightwing and nationalist candidates in crucial elections due in Japan and South Korea within the next week, regional analysts warned.

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