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On Its Birthday, U.N. Peacekeeping Gives Back

Peter Yeo | Posted 05.30.2012

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For six decades, these men and women -- most recognizable in their blue helmets -- have been responsible for restoring stability where terror lived.

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Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

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U.N. Security Council Blames Syrian Government Forces For Shelling Of Town

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.27.2012

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Sunday blamed the Syrian government for attacking residential areas of the town of Houla with arti...

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Syria Denies Allegations That Its Forces Killed More Than 100 People

AP | BEN HUBBARD and EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.28.2012

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BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people – including women and children – in one...

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Arab Concern Over the West's Infatuation With Iran

Raghida Dergham | Posted 05.25.2012

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Talk of the "Grand Bargain" is once again finding its way to theories on the relationship between the United States and Iran, in light of their mutual...

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Does NATO Matter?

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld | Posted 05.23.2012

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Shouldn't we put NATO out of its misery? To answer that, just look at Libya -- and then Syria.

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UN Inspectors Push Iran On Military Site Access

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

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By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, May 14 (Reuters) - A senior U.N. nuclear official said Iran must give his inspectors access to info...

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Annan's Plan Threatened With Failure as Everyone Evades "Plan B"

Raghida Dergham | Posted 05.11.2012

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What Kofi Annan and his team should think of is the need to distinguish between the failure of the plan and the failure of the man on the one hand, and the thwarting of the six points stated in the man's plan on the other. This mandate is first and foremost meant for Syria and its fate.

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Barack Obama -- Atrocity Preventer

Simon Adams | Posted 05.09.2012

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Beyond Syria, Obama's Atrocities Prevention Board needs to transcend rhetoric and U.N. vetoes in favour of meaningful multilateral engagement.

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Syria's Unfolding Tragedy: What Can Be Done?

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.08.2012

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There is no easy solution to the Syrian debacle and the Annan plan has now become an obstacle rather than a plan that provides a solution to the conflict.

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U.N. Official Makes Shock Suggestion On Mt. Rushmore

Posted 05.08.2012

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South Dakota's Black Hills, home to the granite faces carved into Mt. Rushmore, should be restored as Native American tribal lands, a United Nations o...

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Obama Wants to Postpone the Syrian Revolution Until After the Elections

Raghida Dergham | Posted 05.16.2012

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The world will not necessarily stop, as postponement and delay could cause a backlash against the Arab region and the United States in the form of a major concern and a monster that can only be restrained at a very high cost.

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Interview: Olivia Wilde Produces Baseball in the Time of Cholera

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.02.2012

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Baseball in the Time of Cholera started out as a film about Haiti's first little league team but soon took on international importance as a cholera epidemic infected over 500,000 Haitian people.

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Crime Actually Does Pay

Reuters | Posted 04.24.2012

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* Criminal business one of the world's largest - U.N. * Threatens international development goals * Crime groups showing...

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Iran Toughening on Arab Gulf States and Softening on Nuclear Negotiations

Raghida Dergham | Posted 04.20.2012

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New York -- Iran's leadership has purposely coupled the features of its deal on the nuclear issue with the five permanent Security Council member-stat...

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Teens in the Tinderbox

Suzanne Ehlers | Posted 04.18.2012

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Young people are sophisticated enough to explore and define their values, and make informed decisions that help safeguard their well-being.

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Regarding Iran, America Must Look to the Constitution

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 04.13.2012

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Nothing can so erode confidence in the proper use of power by the strongest nation in the world than failure to adhere to the rules that we have agreed should be binding.

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Fear of Annan's Plan Turning Into a Process of Buying Time

Raghida Dergham | Posted 04.13.2012

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Kofi Annan will not be able to continue merely managing relations between major powers while the Syrian leadership targets people militarily. He has no choice but to admit that granting deadline after deadline will be translated into prolonging the conflict.

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Satellite Photos Of Syria Fighting Reach The Web

iWatch News | Posted 04.05.2012

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In 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosnians by Bosnian Serb forces near th...

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Annan's Mission Suits Damascus' Desire to Buy Time

Raghida Dergham | Posted 05.30.2012

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Annan's mission is edging forward calmly and slowly, which suits the Syrian leadership that seeks to buy time.

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Conflict in Mali Threatens to Escalate Food Crisis in Sahel Region

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.29.2012

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Growing insecurity in Mali and northern Nigeria is disrupting the supply of food to communities suffering from a major food crisis affecting 13 million people in West Africa.

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President of Kiribati Wins Top Ocean Award

David Helvarg | Posted 05.23.2012

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If you're not satisfied with how the leaders of the world's major powers including the U.S., China, India and Brazil are addressing climate change or protecting the ocean maybe you could direct their attention to Kiribati.

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Activists: Syrian Fighters And Regime Troops Clash In Hama, Daraa

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.22.2012

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BEIRUT — Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition areas and clashed with rebel fighters around the country Thursday despite U.N. efforts to s...

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U.N. Chief: Syria Conflict Could Have Global Repercussions

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.21.2012

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BEIRUT — The "extremely dangerous" conflict in Syria could have global repercussions, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as fres...

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Annan Is Assad's Final Life Preserver

Raghida Dergham | Posted 05.17.2012

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Kofi Annan has always been known to be a man skilled at the art of navigation, a perseverant and experienced negotiator. Annan does not like to fail and hates to be the object of criticism. He has a smooth personality, but a solid core.

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