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Afghanistan UN condemns terrorist attack on partner agencys compound
24 May 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan have strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in central Kabul, which earlier today wounded three of the agency's staff, one seriously. One staff member from the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) was also injured, according ...
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UN human rights expert welcomes shift in President Obamas counter-terrorism policy
24 May 2013 150 An independent United Nations human rights expert has welcomed what he said was a ground-breaking speech by President Barack Obama in which the United States leader laid out principles governing the use of counter-terrorism measures such as targeted killings. Mr. Obama said yesterday that, as part of a realignment of US counter-terrorism policy, he would curtail the use of ...
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UN agency calls on Syrias neighbours to keep borders open for refugees
24 May 2013 150 The United Nations refugee agency today called on countries around Syria to keep their borders open for refugees, while also stressing the need for "urgent and robust" international support for host countries and aid agencies. There are already over 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ...
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UN expert group urges new Icelandic authorities to sustain gender empowerment efforts
24 May 2013 150 As the world's top performer on gender equality, Iceland needs to sustain its achievements and bridge remaining gaps on employment and gender based violence, a group of independent United Nations experts today urged as the country's newly formed Government took office. "There is no room for complacency regarding the gains achieved by Iceland, as equality guarantees in the ...
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UN human rights office urges trial to be decided on merits after Guatemalan court overturns Roos Montt conviction
24 May 2013 150 The United Nations human rights office today said it was "concerned" about the legal rights of Guatemalans after a high court overturned the 80 year prison sentence against former military leader, Efrain R237;os Montt. "Amid continued legal uncertainty about what the ruling of the Constitutional Court annulling the verdict on the R237;os Montt case means in practice, we are ...
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UN report highlights benefits of school meal programmes in crisis settings
24 May 2013 150 A United Nations report released today stresses the importance of providing meals for schoolchildren, particularly in times of crisis, and notes that this is still lacking in many developing countries. "School feeding assures that where quality education is available, children are able to take advantage of the opportunity to learn," said the Executive Director of the World ...
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Politics has too much sway over culture education in Bosnia and Herzegovina - UN expert
24 May 2013 150 An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern at the extent to which political bodies have influence over cultural institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and urged the Government to ensure that people have opportunities to engage freely in cultural life. "Culture and education seem to have been held hostage to political debates," Farida Shaheed, the ...
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UN rights experts call for stronger protection of victims of caste-based discrimination
24 May 2013 150 More than 260 million people across the world are still victims of human rights abuses due to caste-based discrimination, United Nations independent experts warned today, urging South Asian countries to strengthen legislation to protect them. "Caste-based discrimination remains widespread and deeply rooted, its victims face structural discrimination, marginalization and ...
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Make-A-Wish whisks local teen to Disney World
(WBIR-Knoxville) Make-A-Wish Foundation whisked a local teen battling heart issues to the most magical place on earth. Garrett, 14, has had several surgeries in the past on his heart. His one wish was to travel to Orlando and visit Disney World, Universal and all the other theme parks. On Saturday, he took off from McGhee Tyson Airport to Florida. His mother, Connie Metcalf, said ...
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Doug Ford disputes Globe report on family history with drug dealing
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, photographed in his office at the family business in Etobicoke, Ont., in February, 2011. (Peter Power/The Globe and ...
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The Bavarians are crowned soccer champions of Europe
A Bayern Munich fan and a Borussia Dortmund fan pose for a photographs with a London police officer before their Champions League Final soccer match against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium in London May 25, 2013.(PAUL ...
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Lifestyle Book traces Africas journey from Europe to China
China -Africa relations has been published and explores how its rising interest in Africa is on the surge compared to former colonial powers. The book ...
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Fracking energy revolution begins to rock the world
FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new ...
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Who is compromising South Stream in Europe
The third and fourth sections of Russia's "South Stream" will be completed by 2018. However, supranational structures in Brussels and their representatives in Berlin still cannot set forth a predictable and unified position on this project of undisputed geopolitical importance. Bureaucratic hurdles like "Third Energy Package" or even more mysterious "Southern ...
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Memorials to a Forgotten World War
Memory can fail you, abandon you, deceive you. It will. To thwart this, we make monuments and plaques and street signs and scatter them about like breadcrumbs in a forest. It doesn’t work. A monument can’t come to you and tell you about a great person or important event; you have to find it, or stumble upon it, and pause in your daily perambulations to read the thing. And with few ...
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Avenged Bayern kings of Europe
Arjen Robben scored in the 89th minute to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over German rival Borussia Dortmund on Saturday in the Champions League final, ending four years of frustration for his team in Europe's biggest ...
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Protesters around the world march against Monsanto
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Organizers say two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S. and in over 50 other countries on ...
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Chiles indigenous fight worlds largest gold miners to protect environment
EL CORRAL, Chile – The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they've drunk straight from the glacier-fed river that irrigates their orchards and vineyards with its clear water. Then thousands of mine workers and their huge machines moved in, building a road alongside the ...
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Video More arrests in connection with London terror attack
British police have arrested 3 more suspects in connection with the terror attack that left a British soldier hacked to death on a London street. Charlie D'Agata ...
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New book tells untold stories from Iraq
Photojournalist Michael Kamber joins MSNBC's Craig Melvin and fellow photojournalists Carolyn Cole and Ed Kashi to talk about his new book, "The Untold Stories From Iraq: Photojournalists on War" (University of Texas Press, May ...
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Disgraced ex-IMF chief spotted on red carpet at Cannes
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Saturday sent French media into a frenzy when he appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Jim Jarmusch's vampire tale "Only Lovers Left ...
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Trio arrested over London soldier murder
Three men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier who was hacked to death in a London street by two ...
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Divided Europe imperils Syrian arms embargo
A raft of sanctions aimed at hobbling the Syrian regime is at risk of collapse, according to diplomats, unless deeply divided European foreign ministers can reach a consensus tomorrow on amending a ban on arming the ...
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Conquering Everest 60 facts about the worlds tallest mountain
Sixty years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the peak of the highest mountain on Earth, Kathryn Bromwich offers 60 facts about the top of the ...
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Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis Civil war looms in Iraq
As Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian civil war, with 400 people killed so far this month, Najmaldin Karim, governor of one of the country's most violent provinces, is pessimistic about the ability of the government in Baghdad to prevent greater turmoil. "This government is incapable," he says. "It likes to live from crisis to crisis, without managing any one of them. You ...
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Dallas city core development hindered by roadways
The Dallas freeway loop is a series of highways that wrap round the center of Downtown Dallas, built at a time when the inter-connectivity of neighborhoods was not yet appreciated, but with changing attitudes, a series of projects are underway to enhance the appeal of downtown.
Downtown Dallas, it’s the heart of the city, which is the commercial hub of Dallas County and the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest in the entire United States. Yet, this area’s full potential has been hindered by a zoning decision in the 1980s that saw major freeways routed through the city and created a complex ring of highways (the Dallas freeway loop) around the core downtown area. Read more
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