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J Street Conference To Open Amid Controversy

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...

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Karzai Rules Out Afghan Power Share Before Afghan Election Runoff

Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.25.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Voter Fraud, Afghanistan War, Karzai, Afghanistan, Kabul, Obama, Election Commission, Election News, Hamid Karzai, Afghan Election, Runoff, Iec, Un, Us, World News

President Hamid Karzai's team shifted aggressively into campaign mode Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a power-sharing deal with challenger A...

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Benjamin Netanyahu On Iranian Threat: "The Issue Is Not The Security Of Israel But Of The World"

Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Holocaust, Gaza, Palestinian, Fatah, Iran, Obama, Human Rights Abuses, Hamas, Nukes, War Crimes, West Bank, Jerusalem, Nuclear Weapons, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Geneva, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas Fatah, Goldstone Report, Red Cross, Israel, Un, Gilad Shalit, War Crime, World News

NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...

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Karzai Appears Set To Agree To Runoff In Afghan Election

New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and HELENE COOPER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai appears set to concede as early as Tuesday that he fell short of a fi...

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Afghanistan: An Election Without Results

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, 2009, Election, Abdullah, Afghan Election, Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Kabul, Election Fraud, Fraud, Terrorism, War, Tension, Us, Un, World News

Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.

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Karzai Camp Hardens Its Line On Afghan Election Recount

Wall Street Journal | ANAND GOPAL | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not accept the results of a vote recount from the summer's general election, officials from his campaign hi...

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Goldstone, Israel's Frankenstein Monster

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, Bradley Burston, Un, Idf, Ehud Barak, World News

I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.

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Goldstone Backs Away From Report: The Two Faces of an International Poseur

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Yassir Arafat, Israel, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Un, Human Rights Council, Richard Goldstone, World News

With so much of the civilized world condemning the his report, Richard Goldstone seems to be backing away from the report's conclusions -- at least when he speaks to his Jewish audiences.

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Leave Punishing Iran to Iranians

Melody Moezzi | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Un General Assembly 2009, Islam, Khamenei, Hypocrisy, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, UN General Assembly, Iran Election, World, Dmitry Medvedev, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News, Un Gaza, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Opposition, Secretary of State, Ahmadinejad, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Iranian Election, Israel, Un, Iran Protests, Mousavi, Akbar Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Election 2009, World News

It's clear that Iran's strongest adversary today remains within its own borders. The current Iranian regime has far more to fear from its own people than it does from any foreign powers.

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Iran Developing Boy Band, U.N. Fears

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Andy Borowitz, Boy Bands, U.N., United Nations, Comedy News

The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session today amid fears that Iran may be close to developing a boy band.

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Kai Eide: UN Official Defends Afghanistan Election Despite Widespread Fraud

Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...

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UN Plane Crash In Haiti Kills All 11 On Board

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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FONDS-PARISIEN, Haiti — A surveillance plane assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti crashed into a mountain Friday, killing all 11 m...

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Congo Spurns Burundi Refugees at Border

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Unhcr, Drc, Women, Children, War, Idp, Joseph Kabila, Hillary Clinton, Kimia II, Un, Burundi, Gatumba, Refugees, Congo, Banyamulenge, World News

Frustration in the face of this humanitarian tragedy is understandable. Where is SOS Hillary Clinton in the face of this, especially after her courageous meetings with Congolese President Joseph Kabila?

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Hopenhagen: Your Passport To The Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen

Julia Moulden | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

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On December 7, leaders from 192 countries will gather in Copenhagen to determine the future of our planet.

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"World's Worst": Niger Hits Back After UN Label

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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The poverty-stricken nation of Niger is hitting back after a UN report branded it the world's worst place to live....

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Last Straw for the Palestinian "Authority"?

Saree Makdisi | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israel, Palestine, Pa, Human Rights, Goldstone Report, Gaza, Un, World News

This is the direction in which all Palestinians must throw themselves: the creation of one democratic and secular state in which Palestinians and Israelis can live equally in a just and lasting peace.

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Obama's Diplomatic Adventurism

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Adventurism, Obama, Honduras, Diplomacy, Un, Olympics Zelaya, Michelleti, World News

Many Americans spent eight years bemoaning American military adventurism in the Middle East. Looking at Honduras today, the American people might wonder if diplomatic adventurism is any less dangerous a game.

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UN's Forest Protection Scheme At Risk For Crime And Fraud

The Guardian | John Vidal | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Prince Charles, Carbon Markets, Carbon Emissions, Rainforest, Carbon Trading, Un Climate Summit, Redd, Conservation, Sustainability, Un, Forest Protection, Prince's Rainforest Project, UN Climate Change, Greece, Tom Cruise, Foreign Policy, Green News

Experts on all sides of the debate, from international police to politicians to conservationists, have warned this week that the scheme, called Reduci...

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The Guardian: Ahmadinejad Not Jewish, Family Didn't Convert

The Huffington Post | T.J. Ortenzi | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Just a couple weeks ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the podium inside the U.N.'s grand hall and suggested that there was a worldwid...

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Media Literacy 101: Of Mothers, Pakistan, Suicide Bombs, and Track II Diplomacy

Susan Moeller | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Media Literacy, Track II, Fear, Afghanistan, Suicide Bombers, Un, Pakistan, World Food Program, World News

Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.

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Attack on UN in Islamabad Will Have Serious Ripple Effects

Refugees International | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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Taliban militants have decided not to bother differentiating between armed forces and UN aid workers. They should remember, however, that they too are bound by international humanitarian law.

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Norway Best Place To Live: UN Report

Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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An annual report by the United Nations has found that Norway has the highest standard of living for its citizens. The BBC reported that the UN looke...

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IAEA Report: Iran Has Data To Make Nuclear Bomb

New York Times | William J. Broad And David E. Sanger | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: ElBaradei, Nuke, Negotiations, Pakistan, Un Report, Sanctions, Obama, Iran, IAEA Report, Nuclear Weapons, Tehran, Diplomacy, Nuclear Bomb, Un, Iaea, World News

Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to ...

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G-7 To Meet, Talk Less As G-20 Ascends: Officials

Bloomberg | By Rainer Buergin and Simon Kennedy | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

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Group of Seven finance chiefs said they will meet less and issue fewer statements as the G-20 becomes the main arena for setting global economic polic...

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Palestinians Halt Effort to Push Gaza War Report Due To U.S., Israeli Pressure

nytimes.com | NEIL MacFARQUHAR | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Un Israel, Gaza War Report, Richard Goldstone, Palestinians, Un, Israel, Un Gaza Report, World News

UNITED NATIONS In a startling shift, the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council dropped its efforts to forward a report acc...

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