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UNITED NATIONS News, Jan 13, 2012

UN nuclear agency team to visit Tehran later this month
USA TODAY
By Ronald Zak, AP file photo The United Nation's IAEA office is shown in Vienna in this Oct. 7, 2005, file photo. Diplomats have previously said that International Atomic Energy Agency officials were discussing such a trip with their Iranian ...
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USA TODAY
Hopes of a new nation shattered by massacres
Sydney Morning Herald
A family with a wounded boy waits at a United Nations camp to be evacuated for further treatment. Photo: Sven Torfinn/The New York Times PIBOR, South Sudan: The trail of corpses begins about 270 metres from the corrugated metal gate of the UN compound ...
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PICTURES: Photo of the Day
National Journal
Rick Perry listens to Catcher Jones, 7, of Greenville, SC, as Jones tells him about his desire to become President of the United States and to become an Eagle Scout on Thursday on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, SC Dec. 7: New Jersey Gov. ...
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National Children's Day
Bangkok Post
Photo by Jetjaras Na Ranong Following the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, Thailand held the country's first National Children's Day on Oct 3, 1955. Photo by Chumporn Sangvilert The National Children's Day committee agreed to ...
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Birthday celebration cranking up for Muhammad Ali
San Francisco Chronicle
17, 2005 file photo, boxing legend Muhammad Ali is watched by his wife, Lonnie, during the award ceremony for the Otto-Hahn-Peace-Medal 2005 of the German Society of the United Nations in Berlin.The three-time heavyweight boxing champion will celebrate ...
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76-yr Sikh wins turban case against France
indiablooms
Bobigny, France, Jan 13 (IBNS): A 76-year-old Sikh man has won a turban case against France after United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) mentioned that the European nation had breached the religious freedom of the man by asking him to take off his ...
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Syrian Activists Call for Nationwide Rallies
Voice of America
The United Nations and the United States say killings of protesters by Syrian security forces have intensified since the monitoring mission began. But on Friday Elaraby denied the charge in an interview with the Egyptian Al-Hayat television channel. ...
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Rescued Iranians thank God for US Navy
Washington Post (blog)
With tension mounting between the two nations, is it surprising that these fisherman would welcome their rescuers, given how much ink is spilled and air time spent reviling the United States in their home country? I don't think so, and for two reason, ...
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Haiti quiet as quake marked with national holiday
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery / AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake, holding ceremonies that mixed ...
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So Much Hot Air
Slate Magazine
In Kyoto in 1997, the treaty was acclaimed as “a milestone in the history of climate protection,” and President Bill Clinton declared that “the United States has reached an historic agreement with other nations of the world to take unprecedented action ...
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Slate Magazine
PICTURES: Photo of the Day
National Journal
Rick Perry listens to Catcher Jones, 7, of Greenville, SC, as Jones tells him about his desire to become President of the United States and to become an Eagle Scout on Thursday on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, SC Dec. 7: New Jersey Gov. ...
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Concluding its work, UN refugee agency closes office in Timor-Leste
UN News Centre
Photo: UNHCR/K.McKinsey The United Nations refugee agency has closed its office in the Timor-Leste capital, Dili, after more than 12 years, a move hailed by national leaders as a sign that the country had overcome most of the humanitarian problems it ...
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UN News Centre
Iran's Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro chat in Cuba
CBS News
"It's going to make it much more difficult to make progress with our principal market, the United States," he said. Iran opened an embassy in Ecuador in 2008. Trade between the two nations has been meager.
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Silent 'Artist' shouts loudest at Critics Choice Awards
msnbc.com
(UNAMID via AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation Clooney speaks at at news conference at United Nations headquarters in New York on Jan. 31, 2008, after being designated a messenger of peace. Clooney was joining eight other well-known individuals to ...
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msnbc.com
Myanmar frees many prominent political prisoners
WGME
Myanmar freed many of its prominent political prisoners Friday in a long-awaited step toward national reconciliation that also has been a key condition set by Western nations for easing sanctions against the country. (APPhoto/Khin Maung Win) (13 Jan ...
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New Guatemala pres wants to regain US military aid
Albany Times Union
The US also insists that the government support a United Nations-supported international anti-corruption team whose prosecution effort has been criticized by Guatemala's political elite. "I do believe Otto Perez Molina will pursue the lifting of the ...
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Restoring the Civic Mission of Public Schools
The Epoch Times
As a nation, we are not united like other nations by the motherland, race, or religion, Bridgeland said. What unites us are these ideals and ideas in the founding documents, said Bruce Cole, who was a contributor to the volume, and in the audience. ...
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The Epoch Times
Aboriginal Leaders Angered by Outright Government Support of Northern Gateway ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
In it, he suggested that radical, foreign groups based in the United States were funding the opposition. At the same time, Harper was promulgating the pipeline project. The hearings before the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel began ...
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Indian Country Today Media Network.com
US Wants Changes to EU Space Code of Conduct
Space News
Credit: Atlantic Council photo Enlarge Image WASHINGTON — The United States will not adopt the European Union's proposed “code of conduct” for space activity as currently drafted on the grounds that it is too restrictive, according to US government ...
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Space News
Opium Prices Skyrocket in Afghanistan
International Business Times
By Palash R. Ghosh | January 13, 2012 12:33 PM EST The price of Afghan opium soared by 133 percent last year, according to a report from the United Nations. Opium poppy farmers in Afghanistan are estimated to have earned more than $1.4-billion in 2011, ...
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International Business Times
Spare Times for Jan. 13-19
New York Times
The last stop is St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue and 51st Street, where choirs from churches around the city, as well as the United NationsSingers and a children's choir from the Bronx, will take part in a service beginning at 4 pm Visitors can ...
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Gunmen kill two aid workers in Somalia
Press TV
(File photo) Gunmen have killed two local aid workers with theUnited Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) after they fired a rocket propelled grenade at their vehicle in Somalia's central region of Galguduud, Press TV reports. ...
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Rory Lamont apologises after Twitter blast at Barack Obama
BBC News
These have included the United States president, Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Scottish Rugby Union has described the language as "inappropriate" and the 29-year-old has apologised via Twitter. ...
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BBC News
Crocodile makes appearance at Pope event
ABC7Chicago.com
It is classified as endangered by the United Nationsconvention on endangered species. The croc who attended the papal audience had been seized by Italian forestry authorities late last year after it was discovered in an Italian private collection, ...
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ABC7Chicago.com
The Strait of Hormuz
Washington Post
Iran defiantly announced that it had tested a new missile and made an advance in its nuclear program after the United States unleashed extra sanctions that sent its currency to a record low. Iranian navy boats take part in maneuvers during the ...
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D-days for the Europe experiment
Sydney Morning Herald
Through that sliding door to an alternative reality - one in which the EU pulls closer over joint taxes and spending, which would stabilise the euro - we might one day see a ''United States of Europe''. But right now, no one is offering odds on that ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
India on track to become polio-free, says UN health agency
UN News Centre
Photo: WHO/P. Virot With no registered polio cases over the past year, India is on course to becoming free of the disease, theUnited Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. If all pending samples for the virus test negative, ...
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UN News Centre
The Realist Prism: Two Key Gaps in Obama's Strategic Defense Guidance
World Politics Review
The guidance puts a premium on what might be termed “expeditionary firepower” -- naval and air assets capable of projecting power over a wide area -- and focuses on the Asia-Pacific region as being the part of the world where the United States ought to ...
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United Nations-African Union Partnership can improve further ...
By APO
NEW YORK, January 13, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks to the Security Council on the United Nations-African Union Partnership in Peace and Security, in New York on ...
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Two Years Later-A Detailed Photo Gallery | HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG ...
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HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG Proud to be Haiti's most informative NEWS site ... An injured man is prepared for air transport at the Port-au-Prince International airport on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. [Image] Peacekeepers carry a survivor from the rubble of the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) Stabilization Mission in Haiti after a major earthquake struck in Port-au-Prince in this January 13, 2010 video grab. Reuters [Image] A girl lies trapped between her bed and the roof of ...
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Myanmar-United States Relations: Ambassadors To Be Exchanged ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it was ready to exchange ambassadors with Myanmar as President Barack Obama welcomed the release of 200 political prisoners as a "substantial step forward for ... Myanmar , Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. Myanmar freed some of its most famous political inmates Friday, sparking jubilation outside prison gates while signaling its readiness to meet Western demands for lifting economic sanctions. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win) ...
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Haiti Still Recovering Two Years After Earthquake
By Staff
While three billion dollars was donated to help the country rebuild, only 18 percent of that money ever made it to the Haitian government, according to theUnited Nations. ”The international community showed an incredible amount of...
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Arabs may call on United Nations to help in Syria - Yahoo! News
76 photos - Tue, Jan 10, 2012. See latest photos ». CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers meet Sunday to discuss whether to ask the United Nationsto help ...
news.yahoo.com/arabs-may-call-united-nations-help-syria-122...
United Nations Development Programme Helps Rebuild Haiti (PHOTOS)
On January 12th, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, killing over 300000 ... debris removal and job creation, according to the United Nations. ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../united-nations-developmen_b_11...
Santorum says there are no classes in the United States
Gallery Critics' Choice awards show highlights 9 of 9 ... Former Pennsylvania Sen. says the United States does not have any classes and Republicans should stop ... at a Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire sponsored by ABC News/Yahoo! ... by actornaught January 9, 2012 12:17 PM EST: Middle Class? ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../santorum-says-there-are-no-classes-in-th...
seMissourian.com: International News: United Nations visit to ...
United Nations visit to Tehran set for Jan. 28. Friday, January 13, 2012. By GEORGE JAHN ~ The Associated Press. VIENNA -- A senior U.N. nuclear agency ...
www.semissourian.com/story/1804138.html
Gary He: United Nations Development Programme Helps Rebuild ...
Good News · Greatest Person Of The Day · Veterans · Homelessness ...United Nations Development Programme Helps Rebuild Haiti (PHOTOS) ...On January 12th, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, killing over 300000 people, ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../united-nations-developmen_b_11...
Trouble brewing in the Central African Republic - UPI.com
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The United Nationssuspended some operations and villagers are essentially trapped by rebel fighting in the ...
www.upi.com/Top_News/...in.../UPI-45151326300600/
United States defends immunity law for Yemeni president Saleh ...
Yemen's cabinet proposed the law on Sunday to speed Saleh's exit from office. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images. The United States has defended a Yemeni draft ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../us-backs-yemen-immunity-for-saleh
THE DAILY STAR :: News :: Politics :: Hezbollah says U.N.'s Ban not ...
THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2012 ... January 08, 2012 11:36 AM ... United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center, addresses a meeting .... 24 hours inpictures ...
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon ... - Getty Images
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gestures as he arrives to the VIP room at Beirut International Airport on January 13, 2012. Ban who arrived in... of a three-day visit,… Get premium, high-resolution news photos at GettyImages.
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GreaterKashmir.com from Srinagar Kashmir,photos and latest News ...
United Nations, Jan 1: Pakistan today joined India on the 15-nation UnitedNations Security Council as it begins its two-year term on the powerful UN body from ...
www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Jan/2/world.asp
Council Discusses Strengthening UN-African ... - United Nations Photo
12 January 2012. United Nations, New York. Photo # 501592. Permalink. Featured Galleries. More: Featured Slideshows, Economic and Social Council, Other ...
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Photo: Iranian oil embargo, the EU agreed in principle - Education ...
Posted:January 6,2012 Views:3 Bookmark and Share ... EU sanctions against Iran's oil exports preliminary decision 4 news spread, the international oil price rose .2 day ... She said the United States also hopes 'to see other countries to do so'. ...
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INTERNATIONAL - Ban urges Cypriot leaders to make effort for Jan 22
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