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• Arlington, Va., educators cancel Taliban debate (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – A middle school principal in Virginia has called off an assignment that asked some students to represent the views of the Taliban in a… Read more here: (AP)"> (AP)">Arlington, Va., educators cancel Taliban debate (AP)
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• China says Uighur asylum seekers are criminals (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – China on Tuesday warned the United Nations refugee program not to be a “haven for criminals” as it signaled it wanted the return of… See the rest here: (AP)"> (AP)">China says Uighur asylum seekers are criminals (AP)
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• Blair sold Iraq on WMD, but only regime change adds up

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  The PM seems to have deployed arguments as they suited him. Our weapons inspections were telling another story Hans Blix guardian.co.uk , Monday 14 December 2009 21.00 GMT Before the Iraq war was launched in March 2003 the world was given the impression by the US ...
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• Trump report card

  
  Public Eye Online — Authority: 522
  Advocates will be preparing their own evaluation of the measures taken by Canada between 1998 and 2007 to protect child rights. The federal government submitted just such an evaluation to the United Nation last month. But, as reported exclusively by Public Eye, the British Columbia section of that report promotes ...
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• Is the United Nations About to Play Hard Ball (With AIDS) Over Ugandas Gay Bill?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 697
  The African AIDS Vaccine Programme, a giant United Nations and World Health Organisation-run institution pushing vaccination research efforts across the continent, is being moved from Geneva to a more geographically sensible location: Ugandas Entebbe. Except that might all change if Uganda approves the Kill The Gays ...
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• COP15 Update: Developing Countries Threaten to Walk Out

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 727
  Photo by Christian Charisius for Reuters This morning in Copenhagen , the climate talks stalled as African nations threatened to walk out on the conference. Upset that industrialized nations appeared to be killing the Kyoto Protocol , the African bloc cried out that industrialized nations were short-changing ...
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• A great way to help this christmas season

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 157
  At a time when funds to feed the hungry are hard to come by, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today urged ordinary people to put food on the table of the world’s hungry by supporting the “Billion for a Billion” online campaign. “The challenge of feeding a billion people may seem huge, but now ...
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• International affairs

  
  Public Eye Online — Authority: 522
  Sunday morning, on Public Eye Radio, we catch up with provincial New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming just as hes leaving to attend the climate change talks in Copenhagen. Canadian Restaurant and Food Services Association Western vice-president Mark von Shellwitz discusses his campaign against the ...
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• Free Sri Lanka Child Soldiers: UN Envoy

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 160
  Colombo: Free Sri Lanka Child Soldiers: UN Envoy, A top United Nations envoy asked Sri Lanka today to release detained Tamil Tiger child soldiers and asked the authorities to re-unite them with their families. Retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, the UN special envoy on children and armed conflict, said children ...
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• India Raised Insurgency Issue With Myanmar: S M Krishna

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 160
  India News: India Raised Insurgency Issue With Myanmar: S M Krishna, We discussed the issue of insurgent groups working against India from the soil of Myanmar. He assured me of full cooperation in this regard,” Krishna told the media onboard his aircraft. Asked specifically if the issue of ULFA chief Paresh Barua ...
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• Centre Says no to New States ‘everywhere’: Telangana fallout

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 160
  Barasat : Telangana, Vidarbha, Gorkhaland, Bodoland, Harit Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Purvanchal and many more – the ever increasing list of demand for new states on Saturday forced the Central government to limit the Telangana fallout and categorically make it clear that the ‘compromise’ on Andhra Pradesh should ...
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• U.N. warned of risks in backing Congo army ops: memo (Reuters)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  Reuters – Lawyers warned the United Nations in April of the risks of backing military operations in which… Read the original post: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">U.N. warned of risks in backing Congo army ops: memo (Reuters)
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• U.N. warned of risks in backing Congo army ops: memo (Reuters)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  Reuters – Lawyers warned the United Nations in April of the risks of backing military operations in which Congolese soldiers are now accused of… Read more from the original source: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">U.N. warned of risks in backing Congo army ops: memo (Reuters)
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• Childs play?

  
  Public Eye Online — Authority: 522
  Earlier, we reported a Canadian submission to the United Nations on measures taken to protect child rights between 1998 and 2007 was handed in on November 20 - ten months later than originally planned. So why the delay? Well, in an email response, Heritage Canada assured us the federal government "takes its ...
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• The Vatican Comes Out Against State Persecution of GLBT People

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 575
  Scott Long of Human Rights Watch reported today that The Vatican said it opposes discriminatory penal legislation  against gay people during a United Nations panel discussion on sexual orientation. Long says the people in attendance were “stunned”.  According the Vatican’s statement, delivered by Father Philip ...
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• Out of frame

  
  Public Eye Online — Authority: 522
  A Canadian submission to the United Nations omits key information in its reporting on measures taken to protect child rights in British Columbia, according to the provinces independent children and youth representative. Under international law, the submission - which covers the period from 1998 to 2007 - is supposed ...
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• Court: Ex-UN ambassador for Bosnia can stay in US (AP)

  
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  AP – A U.S. citizen who served as Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations cannot be extradited even though he is accused… Go here to read the rest: (AP)"> (AP)">Court: Ex-UN ambassador for Bosnia can stay in US (AP)
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• Beligerant Nation With Unknown WMD Capability Refuses To Let UN Inspect Alleged Bioweapons Sites

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 440
  I screwed up the linkSo heres the real one.
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• India, Russia Reaffirms Commitment To Continue Fight Against Terrorism

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 508
  Nilanjana Bhowmick - AHN India Correspondent New Delhi (AHN) - India and Russia will work jointly to strengthen the historic relationship between the two countries and to "intensify" their strategic partnership, the nations announced in a joint declaration. The two countries reaffirmed the importance of strong ...
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• Lag time

  
  Public Eye Online — Authority: 522
  Last month, Canada submitted a report to the United Nations on measures it had taken to protect childrens rights between 1998 and 2007. But that report promoted a number of British Columbia programs that were cut by the Campbell administration in the months following the election. And, in one case, the report ...
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