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United Nations (UN):
Washington Post
January 3, 2009
With these threats looming, the
UN Security Council held a precedent-setting debate on
climate change in April 2007 -- explicitly casting
global warming as ...
We're used to thinking of climate change as an environmental problem, not a military one, but it's long past time to alter that mindset. ...
AlterNet
January 3, 2009
We are living in an age of small
wars-some are blunders, but some will be necessary. The challenge is to sustain their democratic legitimacy by keeping them ...
Coalition troops have been acting under a series of Security Council resolutions authorizing the continuing occupation of Iraq. But this year, Bush allowed ...
FinalCall.com
January 3, 2009
"We thus urge the
United Nations to organize and hold a
UN Charter Review Conference, under Article 109 of the Charter, in order to determine what can and ...
Rob Wheeler of the World Alliance for Transforming the UN said the United Nations, in failing to ensure that all people's rights are met, ...
Xinhua
January 4, 2009
4 (Xinhua) --
Indonesia on Sunday called on
United Nations (UN) to work on renewing dialog and negotiations on the
Palestine-Israeli conflict among each ...
The Punch
January 4, 2009
The Canberra Times
January 4, 2009
It allows any member of the United Nations to join. Of the 46 countries that have done so, 28 are consultative parties with the right to make collective ...
Farming UK
January 4, 2009
The
United Nations World Food Program, backed by
Bill Gates and Howard Buffet, said on Wednesday it would buy surplus crops directly from poor farmers in ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 4, 2009
The decision by
President George W. Bush to invade
Iraq during March 2003 no matter how much the
United Nations or most other countries around the world ...
Reuters
January 4, 2009
Richardson, 61, served as US ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary during the Clinton administration. He was an early supporter of Obama ...
New York Times
January 4, 2009
One idea circulating in
Paris and at the
United Nations on Sunday was to send
European Union troops as part of an international force to the
Gaza border to ...
Xinhua
January 4, 2009
"I believe the
United Nations, in particular the
Security Council, has a central role to play in bringing a speedy end to the conflict," he said. ...
Worcester Telegram
January 4, 2009
The
United Nations opposes
same-sex marriage. The great state of
California, population 36.5 million, approved Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. ...
International Herald Tribune
January 4, 2009
Xinhua
January 4, 2009
KXMC
January 4, 2009
Washington Post
January 3, 2009
According to the
United Nations Population Division (whose projections are cited throughout this article), the median ages of
Western Europe and
Japan, ...
Reuters
January 3, 2009
International Herald Tribune
January 3, 2009
AP
Seoul,
South Korea: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak asked the
United Nations chief to help improve strained relations with
North Korea, ...
New York Times
January 3, 2009
Inner City Press
January 3, 2009
United Nations, January 3 -- When
Ban Ki-Moon took over as UN Secretary-General two years ago, he said that transparent management and UN reform would be ...
New York Times
January 3, 2009
By BONNIE YOCHELSON LAST week, The City Visible featured Frank Gohlke's black-and-white photographs of Queens neighborhoods. Mr. Gohlke shared a commission ...
Washington Post
January 3, 2009
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the meeting will be a chance for the president to thank Ban "for his leadership of the United Nations and his ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 3, 2009
As envoys from the
Arab League, including Abbas, head to the
United Nations early next week to press for an end to the fighting,
Hamas has drawn relatively ...
BBC News
January 2, 2009
There were long queues on Friday at the UNRWA (
United Nations Relief and Works Agency) Beach Distribution Center in
Gaza as sacks of aid were handed out.
Philadelphia Jewish Voice
January 2, 2009
Look at what happened at the
United Nations on Tuesday. The
Security Council passed its first resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in five ...
Xinhua
January 2, 2009
CNN International
January 2, 2009
According to the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the
sea, countries are entitled to exclusive economic zones up to 200 miles from their shores. ...
eTaiwan News
January 2, 2009
In mid-December the United Nations gave up its effort to create a peace-keeping force to restore some semblance of order. "Not one nation has volunteered to ...
Bloomberg
January 2, 2009
2 (Bloomberg) --
Ethiopia has begun withdrawing its forces from
Somalia, after invading the country two years ago to support the
United Nations-backed ...
Inner City Press
January 2, 2009
United Nations, January 2 -- The defensiveness of the UN knows no bounds. At the end of a week that began with the UN implying that all men killed by air ...
EastBayRI.com
January 2, 2009
After the war, he participated in the
San Francisco Conference that created the
United Nations. He then served seven years as a State Department official ...
Reuters
January 2, 2009
The
United Nations this week condemned attacks on candidates competing in the January 31 provincial council vote in
Mosul and the surrounding province of ...
TransWorldNews (press release)
January 2, 2009
... within the region have deteriorated enough for the
United Nations to declare
Palestinians within
Gaza are now facing a serious health and food crisis. ...
Indianapolis Star
January 2, 2009
Other than
US troops, the largest number of uniformed military personnel now deployed around the world are
United Nations peacekeeping forces. ...
Kansas City Star
January 2, 2009
World Magazine
January 2, 2009
By author: Grassroots pro-life
activists just sent a sweeping statement to the
United Nations. It started with Marie Stopes International's floundering ...
New York Times
January 2, 2009
No doubt the authorities were unhappy with a report produced by her center that was cited recently by the
United Nations' secretary general,
Ban Ki-Moon, ...
Xinhua
January 2, 2009
Shouting "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar (God is the mighty)", the demonstrators from the
Islamic party appealed to the
United Nations to issue a ...
Reuters
January 2, 2009
By Patrick Worsnip
United Nations, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Arab countries called an emergency session of the
UN Security Council on Wednesday to debate the ...
Zanesville Times Recorder
January 1, 2009
If Eleanor Roosevelt were still here, she would be enraged and sickened by the utter failure of the United Nations, which she nurtured into being, ...
KXMC
January 1, 2009
United Nations (AP) Arab leaders are calling on the
United Nations to help bring about an end to the violence in
Gaza. They've called on the Security ...
Associated Press of Pakistan
January 1, 2009
United Nations, Dec 31 (APP): The United Nations emergency relief fund, set up to speed response to those suffering from natural and man‑made disasters, ...
New York Times
January 1, 2009
Among the total dead - between 320 and 390, according to the
United Nations - Palestinian medical
officials say that 38 were
children and 25 were women. ...
