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UNITED NATIONS News, Mar 16, 2012

Annan plans to return to Syria, urges UN unity
STLtoday.com
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the United Nationsspecial envoy to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday March 10, 2012. The state-run news agency SANA ...
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Israel: Fire UN official over false Gaza photo
Jerusalem Post
By HERB KEINON Prossor calls for dismissal of OCHA official who postedphoto of bloodied Palestinian girl during latest escalation. By Shahar Azran Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor called Wednesday for the dismissal of a UN official ...
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Tobacco use kills 5 million people worldwide annually: UN
DAWN.com
File Photo UNITED NATIONS: Tobacco use is responsible for five million or 12 per cent of all deaths of adults above the age of 30 globally each year, according to a new United Nations report unveiled on Friday. The new report by the UN World Health ...
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DAWN.com
Syria Crisis: 8000 Dead, UN Estimates
Huffington Post
(AP photo/Mohammad Hannon) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that well over 8000 people have died in Syria over the past year as a result of the government's bloody crackdown on protesters. The UN chief raised the ...
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Annan says 'disappointing' response to Syria peace bid
Ahram Online
United Nations envoy Kofi Annan speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (Photo: AP) Special envoy Kofi Annan said Friday he was disappointed by President Bashar al-Assad's response to ideas for ending the bloodshed ...
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Ahram Online
Ethiopian Forces Raid Asmara's Bases
AllAfrica.com
A Slovakian deminer from the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia. (Photo Courtesy Jorge Aramburu/UN/DPI) Cape Town — Ethiopian troops mounted a raid into neighbouring Eritrea on Thursday and claimed to have destroyed "three mercenary camps".
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AllAfrica.com
NAACP Takes Voter ID Laws To UN Rights Council
NPR (blog)
by Eyder Peralta Like they've done in the past, the NAACP has argued before aUnited Nations panel that laws passed in some states that require voters to show identification suppress the votes of minorities. "'This really is a tactic that undercuts the ...
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Ban's Four-Nation Asian Tour for Nuclear Summit to Start in Indonesia
Jakarta Globe
Ban Ki-moon will visit Indonesia on Monday. (EPA Photo/Justin Lane) United Nations. UN leader Ban Ki-moon starts a four-nation Asian tour on Monday that will culminate in a nuclear safety summit in South Korea, a UN spokesman said.
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Jakarta Globe
Army Attacks Alleged Rebel Bases in Eritrea
AllAfrica.com
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle, 15 March 2012 A Slovakian deminer from theUnited Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia. (Photo Courtesy Jorge Aramburu/UN/DPI) Addis Ababa — Ethiopian forces on Thursday carried out cross-border attacks against rebel bases ...
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AllAfrica.com
NAACP Brings US Election Law Before United Nations
The New American
Shelton went on to say that the photo ID law “undercuts the integrity of our government, if you allow it to happen. It's trickery, it's a sleight of hand. We're seeing it happen here and we don't want it to happen to you, and we are utilizing the UN as ...
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Activists report clashes near Syrian capital
Chicago Sun-Times
Syria's Foreign Ministry said in a letter sent to the heads of the United Nationsand the UN Security Council Friday that Damascus will continue its crackdown and at the same time will cooperate with Kofi Annan, the envoy charged with trying to help ...
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Eritrea: Provocative Attacks By the TPLF Regime
AllAfrica.com
A Slovakian deminer from the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia. (Photo Courtesy Jorge Aramburu/UN/DPI) Asmara — As reported, with much bravado, by the news media of the TPLF regime, its armed forces yesterday "penetrated 18 km inside...
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AllAfrica.com
Syrian government to lead humanitarian visit
USA TODAY
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The UN humanitarian chief said a Syrian government-led mission will visit Homs, Hama, Daraa and other cities at the center of the country's uprising starting this weekend, accompanied by UN and Organization of Islamic Cooperation ...
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USA TODAY
US: NKorea's rocket launch plan highly provocative
Atlanta Journal Constitution
(AP Photo/KRT TV, File) NORTH KOREA OUT, TV OUT FILE - In this April 5, 2009 image made from KRT video, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea. North Korea announced Friday, March 16, 2012, it plans to launch a long-range...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
UN leader Ban to stop in Singapore on 4-nation Asian tour
Straits Times
Mr Ban will start in Indonesia and go on to Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - United Nations leader Ban Ki Moon starts a four-nation Asian tour on Monday that will culminate ...
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Straits Times
Rights group warns militarization, discrimination can push Sri Lanka back to ...
Greenfield Daily Reporter
(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) Supporters of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa hold placards while protesting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 15, 2012. Ethnic Tamil lawmakers in Sri Lanka asked theUnited Nations Human Rights Council on ...
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Why are we not looking at these war crimes?
Tehelka
Thousands of such photos have been pored over by the UNexpert panel comprising Marzuki Darusman, Steven Ratner and Yasmin Sooka. In the midst of new evidence emerging, the world's eyes right now are on Geneva where the US has tabled a resolution with ...
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Tehelka
Afghan leader blasts US over probe into shootings
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Photo: Scott Olson, Pool / AP Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of ISAF Joint Command, left, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta take part in a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 15, 2012, prior toPanettas departure for the ...
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
We're seeing it happen here and we don't want it to happen to you, and we are utilizing the UN as a tool to make sure that we are able to share that with those countries all over the world.' "The United Nations has no legal jurisdiction over the ...
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East Africa: State Department Daily Press Briefing
AllAfrica.com
A Slovakian deminer from the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia. (Photo Courtesy Jorge Aramburu/UN/DPI) QUESTION: All right. And then a last one. Do you have any comment or concern about Ethiopia's invasion of Eritrea this morning? MS.
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AllAfrica.com
Syrian government to lead humanitarian visit
Hometownlife.com
By Burhan Ozbilici, AP UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN humanitarian chief said a Syrian government-led mission will visit Homs, Hama, Daraa and other cities at the center of the country's uprising starting this weekend, accompanied by UN and Organization ...
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Vancouver UN gang murder trial: Third judge appointed to handle high-profile case
The Province
By KEITH FRASER, The Province March 15, 2012 1:31 PM SEATTLE ¿Photos included in a government submission to US Distric Court records in a detention hearing for alleged United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche of Coquitlam show a cocaine brick, ...
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Annan warns of impact if Syrian crisis mishandled
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general who is the joint UN and Arab League special envoy, met twice with Assad last weekend and made proposals to end the bloodshed. Lavrov on Friday accused the Syrian opposition of stonewalling Annan's ...
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Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
N. Korea says it will launch rocket in April
Straits Times
North Korea said on Friday it would launch a rocket next month to put a satellite into orbit, a move that would breach a United Nations (UN) ban imposed after previous launches. -- PHOTO: AP SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said on Friday it would launch a ...
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Straits Times
Old photos tweeted in Israel-Palestinian conflict
MyrtleBeachOnline.com
"It is regrettable that a UN staff member appears to have posted inaccurate material on her personal Twitter feed," Rajasingham said. "However, this information does not in any way reflect the views or opinions of the United Nations, nor it has been ...
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NAACP Turns Voter ID Spat Into Satire
Commentary
But the NAACP has reduced that controversy to satire by asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to weigh in on the matter at an upcoming conference on minority rights in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the same UNCouncil that is comprised of some ...
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Ashley Judd based 'Missing' character on friend at Harvard
Boston Globe
Ashley Judd attends Ashley Judd in Conversation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at the United Nations on Wednesday in New York City. (Photo by Dario Cantatore/GettyImages) Actress Ashley Judd was on “Good Morning America” on Thursday ...
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Boston Globe
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Blasts US Over Probe Into Shootings: 'It Is ...
Huffington Post
The United Nations has reported that last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs. The UN attributed 77 percent of the deaths to ...
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UN praises Brazil's charges over disappearances
WRGB
GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations' human rights office says Brazil's decision to file criminal charges over the disappearances of five people is "a long-awaited development towards accountability" for its military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985.
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N. Korea says it will launch rocket next month
Windsor Star
A North Korean missile-firing drill is shown in this undated handout photoreleased by the Korean Central News Agency. North Korea said Friday it would launch a rocket next month to put a satellite into orbit, a move that would breach a United Nations ...
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Annan plans return to Syria, says crisis can have 'serious impact' on region ...
Newser
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the United Nationsspecial envoy to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday... (Associated Press) The Security Council, the UN's ...
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Turkey to halt consular services in Damascus
Atlanta Journal Constitution
(AP Photo/Homs City Union of The Syrian Revolution) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO In this March 9, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Homs City Union ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
UN monitor highlights failure of Iran's justice system
Iran Press Watch
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré. [BWNS 14 March 2012] GENEVA — The United Nations investigator into human rights in Iran has sharply criticized the country's system of justice and human rights record. UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed told a meeting of the ...
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Turkey considers Syria border buffer zone
Ahram Online
The UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan was due to brief theUnited Nations Security Council later in the day on his efforts to end the violence, but there was no sign of any breakthrough. Assad faced growing international isolation as more Arab states ...
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Ahram Online
NAACP asks UN to judge US voter-ID laws
WND.com
(FOX NEWS) — The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage. The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its gathering on minority rights in Geneva ...
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Group: Sri Lanka postwar policies threaten peace
KTAR.com
Ethnic Tamil lawmakers in Sri Lanka asked the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday to press the government to investigate alleged wartime abuses and share power with the ethnic minority to prevent the country from sliding back into violence.
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" NAACP Appeals to UN in Fight Against Photo ID, Other New GOP Voter ...
Brad Blog (blog)
The renewed fight for voting rights in the US goes to the United Nations, as the Republican War on Voting continues... TODAY: Trade war w/ China? March heatwave brings early summer; Keystone XL pipeline more bad than good; PLUS: TV weatherman overturns ...
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Women in the World Summit 2012
Huffington Post
Partnering on the proceedings are organizations doing work to impact women's lives, including Women for Women, Vital Voices, United Nations Foundation, and Virtue Foundation. The Women in the World Foundation, which was launched in 2011, has created a ...
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Annan plans return to Syria, says crisis can have 'serious impact' on region ...
Newser
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the United Nationsspecial envoy to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday... (Associated Press) But he warned Friday of "a ...
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Water access must reach rural and marginalized ... - United Nations
A United Nations report launched today spotlights the need to address unequal water access in Europe, stressing that certain ... UN Logo UN NewsCentre logo and link back to News Centre home ... Photo: Millennium PromiseImages ...
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41532&Cr...
Bill Clinton Admits United Nations Source of Haiti Cholera - ABC News
The United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, offered the strongest ... PHOTO: Haitians wash clothes in a stream Jan. ... In a statement to ABC News, U.N. spokesperson Kieran Dwyer said, "In relation to former ...
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bill-clinton-admits-united.../story?...
Latest photos - United Nations Photo
United Nations Photo. UN ... Result 3 of 61591 for "Latest photos" : ... UN Photo/ Eskinder Debebe ... United Nations, New York ... UN Women Chief Speaks on ...
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U.N. to redouble LRA efforts - UPI.com
UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (UPI) -- U.S. military personnel working in Africa are ... U.N. Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous told the U.N. News Center that U.S. ... NASA releases images of Saturn moon ...
www.upi.com/Top_News/.../03/.../UPI-21171331566656/
UN's Ban says Libya should end rights abuses - Yahoo! News
News: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on ... Ban also noted that U.N. Human Rights Council investigators found that NATO "did not ... Donald Trump's sons criticized after brutal huntingphotos released ...
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Israel: Fire UN official over false Gaza photo - United Nations Jobs
By Shahar Azran Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor called Wednesday for the dismissal of a UN official who earlier this week tweeted a ...
united-nations-jobs.org/.../israel-fire-un-official-over-false-gaz...
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