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Henry Kissinger - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008 numb2
Foreign Policy   Iraq   Photos   US   Wikipedia: 2003 invasion of Iraq  
 Gulf News 
Kissinger gives catastrophic advice
| In an article published recently in the Washington Post, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger reminded his readers that his analysis on Iraq has been correct all the way through. | Referring... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr upload bot)
Hitoya Yaguchi, who heads a support group for victims of poison gas produced by Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, shows photos of the latest poison gas victims in the northeastern Chinese city of Qiqihar after drums of mustard gas  dumped by Imperial Japanese soldiers decade ago were dug up last week, sickened at least 34 people, during a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003.
Japan   Photos   War Crimes   Weapons   Wikipedia: World War II  
 Asia Times 
Hiroshima's poisonous past
|      Sep 3, 2010 Hiroshima's poisonous past | By Peter J Brown | In late August, several historians and others from South Korea, China and Japan announced the joint publication o... (photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahara)
In this image made Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 from China Central Television footage, North Korea's  Kim Jong Il, left, walks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, when they met in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province on Friday Aug. 27, 2010  Asia Times 
China makes its North Korea move
|      Sep 3, 2010 Page 1 of 2 | China makes its North Korea move | By Peter Lee | The Barack Obama administration's policy of "strategic reassurance" vis-a-vis China appears ... (photo: AP / CCTV via APTN)
China   N Korea   Photos   US   Wikipedia: ROKS Cheonan sinking  
George Mitchell and Ehud Barak at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, 2009  Khaleej Times 
US seeks Israeli peace talks with Syria, Lebanon
WASHINGTON ' The United States is pushing for peace talks between Israel, Syria and Lebanon, US envoy George Mitchell said on Tuesday, as the Israelis prepared to resume direct negotiations with the P... (photo: Public Domain / Faigl.ladislav)
Israeli   Israeli   Peace   Photos   Photos   Syria   Talks  
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A U.S. Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon leads a formation of F-15 Eagles and F-22 Raptors as they fly in formation over USS George Washington (CVN 73). The New York Times
Testing North Korean Waters
| Former President Jimmy Carter deserves great credit for traveling to Pyongyang and securing the release of a U.S. citizen, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced t... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki)
Defence   N Korea   Photos   US   Wikipedia: ROKS Cheonan sinking  
Glass of Water - Drinking Water Scoop
No Safe Drinking Water Leads To Health Problems
Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 9:23 am | Press Release: ALRC | HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL | Fifteenth session, Agenda Item 3 | A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resour... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Disease   Health   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Drinking water  
Climate Change - Environment The Daily Telegraph
UN climate change panel to be warned over reports
The United Nation's climate change organisation faces a warning over how it uses scientific facts in its influential reports, following the discovery of a series of embar... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Climate   Discovery   Nation   Photos   Wikipedia: climate  
Jai Kisan, the forgotten slogan Zeenews
‘Jai Kisan’, the forgotten slogan
Sushmita Dutta | Forty five years ago, former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri rightly underscored the importance of agriculture and the contribution of farmers as an i... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Agriculture   Economy   FArming   India   Photos  
File:Hamid Karzai 2006-09-26.jpg Asia Times
Karzai wagers on Obama's audacity
|      Aug 28, 2010 Karzai wagers on Obama's audacity | By M K Bhadrakumar | Public corruption in Afghanistan is taking curiouser and curiouser turns.... (photo: Public Domain / PFHLai)
Afghanistan   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia : Hamid Karzai  
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy during an event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Friday, July 9, 2010. The Examiner
Obama denigrates U.S. in report to United Nations
| The [Obama Administration] report says that it welcomes “observations and recommendations” from concerned members of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which includes ... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Government   Obama   Photos   President   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
A child walks through a mud-filled street in Khwas Koorona Village, in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. An estimated 2.5 million of the province's 3.5 million residents have been affected by severe floods. Scoop
UN Steps Up Flood Relief In Pakistan
Friday, 27 August 2010, 3:20 pm | Press Release: United Nations | UN Steps Up Flood Relief In Pakistan As Number Of People Affected Tops 17 Million | New York, Aug 26 201... (photo: UN / UNICEF/ZAK)
Disaster   Flood   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: 2010 Pakistan floods  
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon adjusts his glasses during a plaque unveiling to inaugurate renovations of crumbling buildings inside the U.N. controlled buffer zone separating an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north in Nicosia, the divided capital of ethnically split Cyprus Al Jazeera
UN calls for action over DRC rapes
| The UN Security Council has demanded that efforts be stepped up to prevent a repeat of the reported mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) a few weeks... (photo: AP / Philippos Christou)
Congo   Crime   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda  
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers remarks on the world's food and security problems during a speech at Saint Louis University Friday, June 12, 2009, in St. Louis. Irish Times
Congo must fully investigate mass rapes, UN says
| JODY CLARKE in Nairobi | THE CONGOLESE authorities would have to fully investigate the recent rape of more than 150 women and children in the east of the Democratic Rep... (photo: AP / Jeff Roberson)
Congo   Crime   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda  
A Congolese man pushes a wooden bicycle past a United Nations armoured vehicle outside their headquarters in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. The Governor of Goma, Julien Mpaluku, acknowledged Wednesday that panic was spreading, but stressed that U.N. peacekeepers were still in charge and rebels had not yet entered the The Independent
How did rebels rape 200 women just miles from UN base in Congo?
| The UN Security Council yesterday condemned the mass rape of almost 200 women by rebels in eastern Congo as the organisation's top officials struggled to account for th... (photo: AP / Karel Prinsloo)
Congo   Crime   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Second Congo War  
 North Korean leader Kim Jong Il waves out of a window of his armored train at the Russian border railway station of Khasan, in this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2002 file photo. North Korea is testing new medicines in Russia for Kim Jong Il, a news report said Sund Asia Times
Kim snubs Carter as realities intrude
|      Aug 27, 2010 Kim snubs Carter as realities intrude | By Donald Kirk | SEOUL - Kim Jong-il could hardly have come up with a better excuse for sn... (photo: AP/Igor Kochetkov, File)
Diplomacy   N Korea   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Kim Jong-il  
An armed suspected pirate looks over the edge of a skiff, in international waters off the coast of Somalia. USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and USS Gonzalez (DDG 66) prepared to board the suspicious vessel. Scoop
Security Council Debate Options For Somali Pirates
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 6:31 pm | Press Release: United Nations | Security Council Debates Legal Options For Pursuing Pirates Off Somali Coast | New York, Aug 25 2010 1... (photo: US Navy)
Debate   Photos   Pirates   Security   Somali  
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at Moscow's President Hotel, Friday, March 27, 2009. Friday's conference on coordination of global efforts to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking in Afghanistan, whose participants include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Scoop
UN Appoints Persons To Support World's Poorest
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 6:26 pm | Press Release: United Nations | UN Chief Appoints Eminent Persons To Boost Support For World’s Poorest Nations | New York, Aug ... (photo: AP / Misha Japaridze)
Appoints   Group   Ki-Moon   Photos   Support  
Human Rights Watch International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Survivor in Connecticut Triple Murder Keeps Pressure On as T
- West Bank/Israel: Hamas Must End Attacks on Civilians
- Libya: Step Ahead for Women on Nationality Rights
- Kyrgyzstan: Locked in a Tinderbox
In this Feb. 8, 2008 file photo, a for sale sign stands in front of a bank-owned home in Las Vegas. Las Vegas was second to Stockton, Calif., which was first, with 9.5 percent of all housing units receiving a foreclosure filing in 2008.
Foreclosures Pose Potential Trouble on Election Day
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- NY court dismisses case against Italian UN "biter"
- Kenya pushes back over war crimes suspect's visit
- Pakistan match-fixing claims: three players to be questioned
- Golf president 'set up in sting by US customs'
Kenya's Attorney General, Amos Waki, right, watches as Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki holds up the country's new constitution after signing it into law, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010.
Kenya's historic day overshadowed by presence of Sudanese leader Bashir
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ReliefWeb UN Action Against Terrorism
- Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan
- Earth Observation Aids Disaster Relief In Pakistan
- Study Recommends Changes To Emergency Seed Aid
- UN to support Mizoram in dealing with HIV/AIDS
Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) speaks during the launch press conference of a new UN report ahead of World AIDS Day entitled UNAIDS Outlook 2010 Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009 in Shanghai, China. A United Nations report says that the virus that causes AIDS is spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend requiring changes in strategy to fight the disease.
Senior UN official urges the world to increase funding to combat HIV/AIDS
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- US puts Pakistan Taleban on official terrorist register
- The risks of withdrawal loom
- The degree zero of culture
- US says Pak Taliban part of 'most dangerous terrorist th
This undated image taken from Al-Arabiya TV Wednesday, July 14, 2010 shows failed Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad holding a Quran. Al-Arabiya broadcast excerpts showing Shahzad saying he planned a "revenge attack" against the U.S. that he hoped would touch the hearts of Muslims. Shahzad appears in the clips sitting on the ground in a black turban and military fatigues, with a gun next to him.
US puts Pakistan Taleban on official terrorist register
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Sustainable Development Racism & Discrimination
- Millennium Development Goals Largely Off-Track
- Lebanon still faces long journey to reach 2015 UN Developmen
- A Look at Economic Developments Around the Globe
- US Oncology Invests in the Development of Physician-Payer Ri
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- Suit alleges discrimination by Abercrombie & Fitch
- Third-party SC gov candidate says racism hurting his chances
- Sean Combs accused of age discrimination by ex-employee
- Cowell discrimination case will not go to tribunal
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari attends the Pakistan donors conference at a Tokyo hotel, Japan, Friday, April 17, 2009.(
Zardari orders probe into discrimination against Hindus in relief camps
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International Drug Control Organization U.N. Plan For Women
- Scientists near Ebola drug breakthrough
- UN health agency cautions on drug-resistant disease-causing
- Someone Wants Number of Drug Addicts in Russia to Grow with
- 250,000 NZers benefit from Govt drug budget
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- Desperate men chase anything in a skirt as women go extinct
- Libya: Step Ahead for Women on Nationality Rights
- Benefits seen for high-risk women in ovary removal
- Women, children most vulnerable in Pakistan flood crisis
A Congolese man pushes a wooden bicycle past a United Nations armoured vehicle outside their headquarters in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. The Governor of Goma, Julien Mpaluku, acknowledged Wednesday that panic was spreading, but stressed that U.N. peacekeepers were still in charge and rebels had not yet entered the
How did rebels rape 200 women just miles from UN base in Congo?
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