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UNITED NATIONS News, Dec 13, 2013

Sports stars, at UN, speak out against homophobiaDanbury News Times
In this photo provided by the United Nations, former NBA player Jason Collins addresses the media during a news conference at United Nationsheadquarters, ...
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IAEA will inspect Libya's yellowcake stockpilesBradenton Herald
In this photo provided by the United Nations, Tarek Mitri, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative to Libya, addresses the Security Council on Monday ...
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Bradenton Herald

UN predicts near doubling of city dwellers by 2050Boston.com
GLOBE STAFF PHOTO BY TOM HERDE library tag 12032002 business Library... UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The number of city dwellers is at an all-time high of... the U.N. Human Settlements Program known as UN-Habitat, spoke at a news ...
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FEATURE: UN Staff fondly remember 'Madiba'UN News Centre
Photo: UN Women/Noah Selowe ... Director of UN Women, said she felt the pain of Madiba's passing as she shared with the UN News Centre a conversation the ...
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UN News Centre

UN inspectors confirm Syria chemical attackBradenton Herald
BEBETO MATTHEWS — AP Photo. UN ... UNITED NATIONS — Chemical weapons were probably used in four locations in Syria this year, in addition to the ...
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Bradenton Herald

UN honours Nelson Mandela as champion of peace, reconciliationUN News Centre
UN Security Council observes a minute of silence upon the news of the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard.
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UN News Centre

UN: Afghanistan slow to enforce law on womenWestport-News
The United Nations complained Sunday that Afghan authorities have been slow in enforcing a law protecting women against forced ... Photo: Rahmat Gul, AP.
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UN News Centre

UN urges DR Congo authorities to ensure accountability for election ...UN News Centre
Photo: Laudes Martial Mbon/IRIN-2011. Print. 11 December 2013 – A new UnitedNations report stresses the importance of ensuring accountability ... “in an environment conducive to the respect for human rights,” according to a newsrelease.
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UN News Centre

UN agencies alarmed as humanitarian situation in Central African ...UN News Centre
Photo: UNHCR/B.Sokol. Print. 9 December 2013 – The United Nations says that aid agencies in the Central African Republic (CAR) ... and the bodies are still collected daily in the affected zone,” OCHA said in a news release issued yesterday.
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UN News Centre

UN urges probe into serious human rights abuses by traditional ...UN News Centre
Photo: IRIN/Nancy Palus. Print. 6 December 2013 – The United Nations today released a report calling for investigations into serious ... summary executions, illegal arrest and detentions, looting and extortions, according to a news release.
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UN News Centre

UN scales up aid as number of displaced in Central African ...UN News Centre
Photo: UNHCR/L. Wiseberg. Print. 10 December 2013 – United Nationsagencies are scaling up efforts to assist the scores of civilians ... in December 2012,” the agency's spokesperson in Geneva, Adrian Edwards, told a newsconference.
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UN News Centre

Amid fair trial concerns, UN experts urge Bangladesh to halt ...UN News Centre
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré. Print. 9 December 2013 – Two independent UnitedNations human rights experts today urged the Bangladeshi ... Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Bangladesh is a party,” she said in a news release.
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UN News Centre

Fight against malaria slows, fewer nets given outWestport-News
FILE - In this photo Monday, May 13, 2013 file photo released by the UnitedNations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), a woman suffering from malaria ...
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Counsel & Heal

Global malaria fight needs greater resources to ensure success, UN ...UN News Centre
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe ... Dr. Robert D. Newman, Director of WHO's Global Malaria Programme, told a news conference at UN Headquarters in New York.
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UN News Centre

UN plans first aid airlift to SyriaIndependent Online
In this 2012, file photo, Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions, close to a ...Geneva - The United Nations' first relief airlift to Syria from Iraq will deliver food and ... may get hold of, probably in the last 100 years,” Awad told a news briefing.
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Independent Online

UN's polio vaccination effort underway in MideastKWQC 6
(AP Photo/Lee Keath). ... AP National News VideoMore>> ... BEIRUT (AP) - The United Nations is pushing ahead with its massive immunization campaign ...
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Photos: World Mourns the Death of Nelson MandelaCrossmap
By ABC News On December 7, 2013 ... A subway rider reads a newspaperfeaturing news of the death of South .... (Mark Garten/The United Nations/APPhoto).
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Crossmap

UN eyes Montreux for Syria peace conferenceWestport-News
23, 2013 file picture UN Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi , leaves the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, ... Photo: Jean-christophe Bott, AP.
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Montreal Gazette

Philippines: UN agencies say needs are immense one month after ...UN News Centre
Photo: WFP/Antony Chase Lim ... “Just because the situation in the Philippines is no longer in the news does not mean that the needs in the ... Expressing similar concerns, Fadéla Chaib of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that ...
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UN News Centre

UN alarmed at worsening violence, humanitarian situation in Central ...UN News Centre
Photo: UNHCR/Boris Heger ... The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said at least 140 civilians were killed during ... and provide them with safe access to humanitarian assistance,” the agency said in a newsrelease.
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UN News Centre

Global patent filings hit fastest growth in 18 years, UN reportsUN News Centre
(Photo: WIPO) ... The UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said in its annual report released today the patent filings grew by ... output have followed diverging paths,” WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said in a news release.
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UN News Centre

World leaders to speak at massive Mandela memorialThe Providence Journal
AP PHOTO / BEN CURTIS. Former U.N. Secretary-General and Chair of The Elders Kofi Annan, left, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, right, speak to The ...
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The Providence Journal

Thousands flee in fear to Bangui airportWestport-News
To try to put an end to sectarian violence, the UN security council passed a motion ... In this photoprovided by the United Nations, Charles-Armel Doubane, the ...
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Atheists Face Death Penalty And Discrimination From Governments ...Headlines & Global News
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Headlines & Global News ... (Photo : YouTube screen shot) ... Apart from the Islamic nations, some of the West's most democratic... other religious skeptics, to mark United Nations' Human Rights Day on Tuesday.
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International Business Times UK

Uncle of N. Korea's Kim Jong Un is executedKPLC-TV
... 2013 7:14 PM EST. An uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been executed for trying to overthrow the government, the Korean Central News Agency reported early Friday. ... AP PHOTOS: Argentine slum honors 'Blue Virgin'.
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More UN States Quietly Say No to Drug WarTruth-Out
(Photo: Meridith Kohut / The New York Times)An internal United Nations draft ... “It's not particularlynews to me,” said Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of ...
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Philippines: 'encouraging progress' but long road ahead - senior UN ...UN News Centre
The airport in Tacloban City, the Philippines, was badly damaged in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan on 8 November 2013. Photo: courtesy of the Philippines Air ...
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U.N. inspectors confirm use of chemical weapons in SyriaTulsa World
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) ORG XMIT: XBM104 ... UNITED NATIONS — Chemical weapons were probably used in four locations in Syria this year, in addition ...
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USFK rewards KN, civilian employeesDVIDS
Curtis M. Scaparrotti, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea ... (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Frazier).
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Gulf nations to create joint military commandThe Advocate
10, 2013 photo shows a general view of the opening session of the 34th Gulf Cooperation ... of the group's closing statement carried by the official Kuwait NewsAgency. ... DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab ...
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Ahram Online

United Nations News Centre - In call to Ukrainian President, Ban ...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the telephone [file photo]. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras. Print. 8 December ... News Tracker: past stories on this issue.
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Fight against malaria slows, fewer nets given out - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: LONDON (AP) — Global efforts to curb malaria are ... FILE - In this Monday, May 13, 2013 file photo released by the United Nations African ...
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North Korea purges Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle - Yahoo News
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2013 file photo, people watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, at the Seoul ...
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North Korea says Kim's uncle removed from power - Yahoo News
FILE - In this July 27, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, is followed by his uncle Jang Song Thaek, second from left, and Yang Hyong ...
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IAEA will inspect Libya's yellowcake stockpiles - Yahoo News
In this photo provided by the United Nations, Tarek Mitri, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative to Libya, addresses the Security Council on Monday ...
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Mandela: Life and legacy in pictures - News - nation.co.ke
A file photo dated 1961 of South African anti-apartheid leader and African ... The United Nationsinaugurated Nelson Mandela International Day, which is ...
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Madiba brought our nation together, now he brings the world ...
The United Nations General Assembly observes a moment of silence in honor of ... A security officer holds copies of a local newspaper with a picture of former ... Dijon Anderson of Bowie, Marylandphotographs his son Keaton, 10, in front of a ...
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