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Afghanistan Election: Partial Recount Ordered By U.N.-Backed Panel

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Recount, Kabul, Abdullah Abdullah, Recount Ordered, U.N., Independent Electoral Commission, Voter Fraud, Afghan Election, Karzai, World News

KABUL — A U.N.-backed commission found "convincing evidence" of fraud Tuesday in Afghanistan's presidential election and ordered a recount of su...

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Chuck Hagel: Iraq And Afghanistan Aren't Ours To Win Or Lose

The Washington Post | Chuck Hagel | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Afghanistan, Veteran, 9/11, Obama Administration, Taliban, Chuck Hagel, Afghanistan War, Sen. Hagel, September 11, Iraq War, Wwii, Nato, Gop, Vietnam, Un, Single Issue Engagement, Iraq, Politics News

These wars have cost more than 5,100 American lives; more than 35,000 have been wounded; a trillion dollars has been spent, with billions more departi...

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Germany, France reinforce Iran sanctions threat

AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Germany, Berlin, Iran Sanctions, Sanctions, U.S., Atomic Bomb, China, Britain, France, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, U.N., Tehran, Russia, Iran Nuclear Program, United Nations General Assembly, World News

BERLIN — Germany and France on Monday reinforced a call for Iran to respond to concerns about its nuclear program in September or face tougher s...

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Show Me the Money! Using Your Capital To Save The World At This Year's SOCAP Conference

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Social Change, Kevin Jones, Paul Richardson, Social Capital Partners, Grassroots, World Bank, Giirs, New Radicals, Venture Capital, Tim Draimin, Investing, Smart Cookies, Julia Moulden, Derek Dent, Bill Young, Careers, Un, Social Capital, Socap, Sig, Renewal2, Vancity, Kickstarter, Socap Conference, The Giving Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

What's up? It's the second annual SOCAP conference, the world's premiere social capital markets event (social capital investments incorporate three kinds of returns: financial, social, and environmental).

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UN Plans First Afghan Summit In Kabul

guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, United Nations Afghanistan, David Miliband, Hillary Clinton Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, United Nations, Afghanistan Warlords, Kabul, Afghan Elections, Hillary Clinton, Un, Afghanistan War, World News

The United Nations is planning to host an international summit on the future of Afghanistan for the first time in Kabul as an attempt to bestow credib...

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Sudan's Darfur War Over, Says UN Commander

Reuters | Andrew Heavens | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Joint Commander Agwai, Darfur, Darfur Conflict, Martin Luther Agwai, Africa, Khartoum, Justice and Equality Movement, United Nations, Darfur War, Darfur Violence, Sudan, Un, Eu, Sudan Darfur, JEM Rebel, World News

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Darfur region is no longer in a state of war and only has one rebel group capable of mounting limited military campaigns,...

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Somalia Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis In 18 Years

AFP | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia Aid, Somalia Violence, Situation in Somalia, Somalia Humanitarian, Somalia Crisis, United Nations, Un Somalia, Somali Violence, Somalia, Un, Life in Somalia, World News

NAIROBI (AFP) - Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decade...

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Gaza Play By Chris Gunness, UN Official, Draws Ire In Israel

McClatchy | Dion Nissenbaum | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Un Play Gaza, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Un, Chris Gunness, Gaza War, Israel, Gaza, United Nations, World News

JERUSALEM -- The United Nations has never been especially beloved in Israel, where the international body is often viewed as biased and pro-Palestinia...

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Arabia Felix 102: Yemeni Government Fingers Iran as Arms Supplier to Northern Houthi Rebels

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Ali Abdallah Saleh, Al Alam Tv, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Britain, Shiite Islam, Arab Countries, Unhcr, Tareq Al Houmayed, Iran, Abdel Malek Al Houthi, Saudi Arabia, Daoud El Shiryan, Sunni Muslim, Un, Al Hayat, Saleh Habra, Germany, Morocco, Unicef, Sana’A, Houthis, Hassan Al-Lawzi, Yemen, U.S. Embassy in Sana’A, Bahrain, Kuwait, South Korea, Asharq Al-Awsat, Israel, Sudan, Hadramawt, Together Against Sa’ada War, Zaydi, Hasama, Sa’ada, Aden, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

The sixth Sa'ada war between central government forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen's north is well underway and expected to drag on, according to the country's ruling party.

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Iran Lifts Ban, Allows UN Inspectors Access To Nuclear Reactor

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Un, United Nations, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Iran Un, Iran Nuclear, Iran Nuclear Development, Iran Nuclear Program, Nuclear Development, Un Inspectors, UN Nuclear, Iran News, Iran Lifts Ban on Un Inspection, World News

VIENNA — Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater moni...

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The Modern Making of Refugee Politics

Yasmin Zaher | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Amnesty International, Iraq Refugees, Copenhagen 2009, Un, Iraq, Refugees, World News
Yasmin Zaher

The deeper one delves into the issue, the more Iraqis face injustice and the more peculiar the case of the Danish government appears.

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Afghanistan Restricts Media Ahead Of Election; Press Told Not To Report Attacks

The Associated Press | Fisnik Abrashi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Censorship, Kabul, Afghanistan Censorship, Nato, U.N., Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan Election, Taliban, Afghanistan, Karzai, Barack Obama, World News

KABUL -- Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleashing ...

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What Would Be the Result of Quitting AfPak?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Governance, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, 9/11, Taliban, Proportionality, Military, Ethics, Stephen c.rose, Afbak, Foreign Affairs, Un, Casualties, International, World News
Stephen C. Rose

In essence, if we avoided a disproportionate response, we would be doing what I believe we should have done after 9/11. We didn't and look what happened.

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Iraqi Refugees Make American Road Trip

Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, On the Road, Iraq Refugees, Jack Kerouac, U.N., Road Trip, Displaced Iraqis, Iraq, Iraqi Student Project, Politics News
Joseph Freeman

Iraqi students Fouad and Ahmed feel thrilled to traverse the unknown landscape of an enormous country, a place whose people and policies have had such an impact on their unlikely fates.

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UN To 'Name And Shame' Countries That Kill Children In War

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 09.04.2009 | World

Read More: Claude Heller, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, U.N., Ban Ki-Moon, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Children in Armed Conflict, U.N. Security Council, World News

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to name and shame countries and insurgents groups engaged in conflicts that...

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Somalia: UN Says It's Time To Return To Mogadishu

Inter Press Service | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

Read More: Somali IDPs, UN in Somalia, Moon Somalia, Idps, UN and Somalia, Somalia Politics, Somalia Conflict, Somalia Tensions, Aid to Somalia, Ban Ki Moon, Somalia UN, Somali Refugees, Displacement, Somalia, Somali Pirates, Aid for Somalia, Un, Somalia UN Says It's Time to Return to Mogadishu, Inter Press Service, World News

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go t...

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Ban Ki-moon: I Am Like An "Invisible Man"

WSJ | JOE LAURIA and STEVE STECKLOW | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Ban Ki-Moon, Mr. Ban, United Nations, U.N., Kofi Annan, Un, Myanmar, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Un Secretary General, World News

As the Obama administration implements a new U.S. strategy toward the United Nations, it's working with a U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, who is ...

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G-20 or G-192: Fear of the South

The Real News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: International Financial Crisis, The Real News, Un, UN Conference, Economy, G-20, Economic Crisis, G-192, Politics News
The Real News

The Real News heads to the UN to find out what exactly is being discussed there to provoke such a response from the West.

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Diminishing Returns for Obama's Summiteering?

William Bradley | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Italy, G-8, Africa, Ghana, Barack Obama, Accra, Moscow, Sarah Palin, Copenhagen, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Un, G-20, Dmitri Medvedev, Msnbc, Media Culture, Michael Jackson, Cnn, Fox News, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Nato, Eastern Europe, Poland, Czech Republic, Media News
William Bradley

American media, especially cable TV news, is moving more into infotainment mode, stuck on a few areas. Geopolitics has never been its strong suit, and political coverage is mostly focused on food fights.

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World Population Day 2009 -- Time to Finally Make Maternal Health a Priority

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Mdgs, Sexual-and-Reproductive-Health, Millennium Development Goals, United Nations, World Population Day, Un, Maternal Health, Guttmacher Institute, World News
Sharon L. Camp

World Population Day serves as an urgent reminder that, even amidst a global recession and tight budgets, governments must boost investments in global health -- especially the health of mothers.

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Pope: Greed Has "Wreaked Havoc" On Global Economy

BBC | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Benedict XVI, The Pope, Economy, United Nations, Un, Pope, The Vatican, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

The Pope has called for reform of the United Nations and financial bodies, giving them the "real teeth" needed to tackle economic and social injustice...

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Nestle Gets It Right

Dan Silverstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Give Something Back, Sharon Stone, Peter Brabeck, Crops, Office for Partnerships, Creating Shared Value, Profitability, Harvard, Davos, Capitalist, Water, Farmers, Sustainability, Un, Nestle, UN Global Compact Principals, World Economic Forum, Business News
Dan Silverstein

Nestle has taken specific and measurable steps to achieve sustainable, shared value.

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The Italian Job: What the 2009 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Health and Aid for Africa

World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Aid, G8, Un, Africa, Health, Millenium Development Goal, Marshall Plan, World Bank, g20, G-20, World News
World Vision

While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.

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Stimulate This!

Christiana Wyly | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: G8, G20 Summit, World Economy, United Nations Climate Change, Global Economy, Economy, United Nations, Un, g20, James Quilligan, World News
Christiana Wyly

Without coordinated efforts by developed nations to help the world's poorest nations, 100 million people may fall into extreme poverty each year for the foreseeable future.

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