Bernard Kouchner

Money, Money, Money at the UN -- Will $40 Billion Rescue Pregnant Mothers and Their Infants?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Nicholas Sarkozy, President Obama, Infant Mortality, Millennium Development Goals, Rober Zoellick, Maternal Mortality, Angela Merkel, Bernard Kouchner, Kofi Annan, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, World News
Evelyn Leopold

Wall Street starts a worldwide recession and donors are contributing less money than ever to the ambitious UN plan to slash poverty. But the world body nonetheless believes it can garner a startling $40 billion in new money.

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Iran Sanctions Negotiations Start at UN With No Deadline in Sight (Update)

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Revolutionary Guard, France, Bernard Kouchner, UN Security Council, IAEA Iran, Britain, Iran Nuclear Weapons, China, United-States-Nuclear-Policy, Dmitri Medvedev, Mohammed ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, World News
Evelyn Leopold

The first talks at the United Nations on US proposals for sanctions against Iran begin Thursday but could take months before any resolution is adopted by the 15-nation Security Council.

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Haiti Promised Nearly $10 Billion for Radical Change

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Bill Clinton, Robert Zoellick, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Venezuela, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, United Nations, Michele Montas, Bernard Kouchner, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Canada, European Union, Brazil, Haitiblog, World News
Evelyn Leopold

At a meeting at the UN, more than 100 delegations pledged a total of $5.3 billion over the next 18 months and another $4.6 billion for the years that follow to aid Haiti.

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Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Freedom, Brent Scowcroft, Old Media, Bernard Kouchner, David Addington, Editorial Cartels, Realism, Mainstream Media, Internet, Progressive Realism, Christine Okrent, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jean-David Levitte, The Web, New Media, Cyber-Dissidents, Richard Cheney, Humanitarianism, Pierre Vimont, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The internet today -- despite the occasional bouts of disinformation and invented scandal -- is far more of an effective and immediate marketplace of information than the world for which Bernard Kouchner seems to pine.

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The Internet: an International Political Challenge

Bernard Kouchner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Internet, International Law, Bernard Kouchner, Online Dissidents, Internet Freedom, World News
Bernard Kouchner

It is critical to give the Internet a legal status that reflects its universality, so that it will be more difficult for repressive governments to use the sovereignty argument against fundamental freedoms.

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SOS Darfur!

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Bernard Kouchner, Darfur Genocide, Darfur Sudan, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

This miracle we pretend to wish for so fervently, this living proof that a non-fundamentalist Islamic society is possible, was within reach, and if we do nothing in Darfur, we will have let it die.

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, US, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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Should the French Socialist Party Die?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Albert Camus, Bernard Kouchner, Socialist Party, Jean Paul Sartre, The Left, Nouvel Observateur, May 1968 France, Socialism, French Socialist Party, French Left, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Am I right to say of today's Socialist Party that it is the "large corpse falling backward" that Jean-Paul Sartre has already diagnosed?

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Sri Lanka: West Appalled by Bloodbath but Action is Scarce

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Sri Llanka Civilian Deaths, David Milliband, Sri Lanka, Russia, Prime Minister Taro Aso, Imf, Bernard Kouchner, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Sergey Lavrov, Un, Britain, Austria, Japan, World News
Evelyn Leopold

While U.N. officials have regularly expressed concern at events in Sri Lanka, the bloody war is not high on most nations' agenda.

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Carla & Carlito: Cartoon Book Skewers French First Couple

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarko 1er, Italy, Charles De Gaulle, Mick Jagger, Bernard Kouchner, Queen Elizabeth, Bling-Bling, Carla Bruni, Britain, La Face Karchée De Sarkozy, France, José Maria Aznar, Carla & Carlito: Ou La Vie Du Chateau, Christine Ockrent, Jean Sarkozy, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Rachida Dati, Elysée Palace, Cécilia, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Carla & Carlito: Ou La vie du Chateau, is a loaded 64-page hardback cartoon story that delights in the players' clawing their way to the top.

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Pierre Péan Book Accuses French Foreign Minister Of Taking Cash From African Dictators

The Independent | John Lichfield in Paris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Le Monde Selon K, French Foreign Minister, Doctors Without Borders, Pierre PéAn, Bernard Kouchner, Kourcher Gabon, Kouchner Congo, Socialists, World News

The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday dismissed claims that he had mingled humanitarian activities with paid work for African dictato...

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Bill Clinton At Davos: "This Is Still A Good Time To Be Alive"

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Davos, Shimon Peres, The Road to Davos, Ban Ki-Moon, Bernard Kouchner, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton Davos, Davos 2009, Davos Conference, Politics News

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton delivered an upbeat message Thursday amid the mood of economic gloom at the World Economic Forum, telling delegates...

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France To Host Dialogue On Afghanistan Amidst Renewed Franco-American Relations

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Pakistan, Terrorism, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernard Kouchner, India, US-French Relations, Afghanistan, Diplomacy, President-Elect Obama, Mumbai, Foreign Policy, Obama and Sarkozy, Bush Administration France, France Hosts Meeting Afghanistan, World News
Denise Dennis

Throughout the long presidential campaign, on the campaign trail and in the debates, President-elect Obama reiterated his commitment to a multilateral...

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