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War drives number of forcibly displaced worldwide to 18-year high says UN report
19 June 2013 150 A United Nations report released today says that more people are refugees or internally displaced than at any time since 1994, with the crisis in Syria having emerged as a major new factor in global displacement. The annual Global Trends report, released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), shows that as of the end of 2012, more than 45.2 million people were in ...
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UN officials urge Governments to ensure natural resources fuel development not conflict
19 June 2013 150 Governments bear the primary responsibility to ensure that natural resources do not fuel conflict by ensuring that land and mineral wealth are managed wisely, transparently and yield benefits for the people, senior United Nations officials stressed today in the Security Council. "In too many countries, a wealth of resources - such as timber, oil, coal, diamonds and precious ...
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Four killed 21 injured Iraq attacks
At least four people were killed and 21 wounded in separate incidents of shooting and bomb attacks in Iraq Wednesday, the police said. Three people were killed and 15 injured in a roadside bomb explosion at a popular football field at a village near Maqdadiyah city, some 100 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a local police source. In another incident, an Iraqi army colonel was shot dead ...
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UK Soldier Deaths Court Ruling Will Harm Combat Missions
LONDON The British government warned on Wednesday that future combat operations could become more difficult after a court ruled that families of three soldiers killed in Iraq could sue the military for failing to protect troops on active duty. Britain's Supreme Court upheld the claim of relatives that the Human Rights Act applied to troops serving in battle abroad, and rejected the ...
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Former Hungarian PM Gyula Horn Dies at 80
BUDAPEST Former Hungarian Socialist Prime Minister has died at age 80 after a long illness, the government said in a statement on Wednesday, expressing its condolences to the family. Horn was Hungary's prime minister between 1994 and 1998. He was foreign minister in Hungary's last Communist government, and played a key role in political processes in the late 1980s that led to ...
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Analysts Assess Impact of Military Attack on Iran
The United States and the European Union believe Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran says its program is for peaceful, civilian purposes. The international community has been trying for years to persuade Iran to end its uranium-enrichment program, but to no avail. Low-enriched uranium can be used for civilian nuclear-power plants, but highly enriched uranium is an ...
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Brazil Protests Proceed as Smaller Cities Join
SAO PAULO/FORTALEZA Protesters blocked roads in Sao Paulo and marched toward a stadium hosting a major international soccer game in Brazil's northeast on Wednesday in a growing wave of nationwide demonstrations against poor public services, inflation and other woes in Latin America's biggest country. After more than a week, the biggest series of protests to sweep Brazil in more than two ...
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With Russian Help Europe Prepares to Search for Life on Mars
PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ...
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Mandela International Day launched
The UN and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) Wednesday launched the Mandela International Day, even as the anti-apartheid icon spent his 12th day in hospital for a recurring lung problem. Wednesday's event marked the official launch of programmes to celebrate Mandela's 95th birthday July 18, Xinhua reported. July 18 was endorsed in 2009 by the UN General Assembly as Nelson Mandela ...
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Hamas holds talks to stop being listed as terror group
The Islamic Hamas movement has been holding meetings with foreign officials in a bid to get its name erased from the list of international terrorist organisations, a Hamas official said Wednesday. The US, several European countries and Israel have classified the Hamas movement, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since June 2007, as a terrorist organisation. A series of meetings with European ...
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NRI lawyer wins Iran bank case in British Supreme Court
Mumbai-born Parsi lawyer Sarosh Zaiwala Wednesday notched a remarkable success in a bank case in the British Supreme Court, with major ramifications on the international banking system, an official said. By the court verdict, the British government's sanctions on Iran's largest private bank, Bank Mellat, were lifted after the its security service's "Secret Court" failed to produce significant ...
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UN headquarters in Somalia attacked
An attacker Wednesday blew himself up at the entrance to the UN headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, CNN reported. Others wearing suicide vests entered the UN compound and a gunfight ensued, said police officer Hussein Ahmed. The compound had now been secured and was in the hands of African Union troops, according to the official Twitter account of the African Union Mission to ...
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World Ukraines finance ministry denies drunk claims against minister
Ukraine 's finance ministry denied on Thursday allegations by opposition politicians that a deputy finance minister had been drunk when he spoke to parliament on the budget this ...
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World Sweden jails Rwandan for life for role in 1994 genocide
"It has been proved that the purpose of the acts of which the defendant has now been convicted was to wholly or partly destroy the Tutsi ethnic group. The acts have therefore been assessed a genocide," the court ruling said, setting a sentence of life ...
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World Bank pledges to ensure developing countries dont suffer from tighter monetary policy
BERLIN -- The head of the World Bank is pledging to ensure that financing for developing countries doesn't suffer when central banks in rich nations wind down monetary stimulus programs and raise interest rates. The U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it could start scaling back later this year its huge bond-buying program -- aimed at keeping long-term interest rates low to boost ...
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World Heritage Warning UNESCO Says Loreley Bobsleigh a Blight
A popular new summer bobsleigh ride located near Germany's famous Loreley is becoming a contentious issue ...
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World from Berlin Obama Visit Highlights Genuine Trans-Atlantic Dissonance
US President Barack Obama managed to achieve his primary goal during his one-day visit to Berlin on Wednesday: charming his hosts. But German commentators argue he was unable to bridge a growing gap between the two ...
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Economic Growth In Europe Is Slow But Not As Slow As Before
Output in the eurozone's service and manufacturing sectors is still falling. But this quarter, that output fell at its slowest rate in more than a year, according to a recent survey. Analysts say that could mean a return to growth could be on the ...
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Russia might increase allocation to ensure security at FIFA World Cup 2018
MOSCOW, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia might increase financing of security measures at the FIFA’s World Cup in 2018, Russian Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko said on Thursday. "As of now, a total of 30 billion roubles have been allocated to ensure security during the football World Cup in 2018," Mutko said. "But the sum might be adjusted. The concept of security will be very ...
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Suu Kyi faces long road to top job
But to emerge as president after a 2015 general election, Suu Kyi, 68, must overcome challenges that would daunt a less formidable political ...
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FBI We use drones on home soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller listens at the US Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in ...
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Top court rejects Berlusconi’s bid
Rome - Italy's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a claim by former premier Silvio Berlusconi which the billionaire had hoped would block a trial against him which could see him booted out of ...
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Chinese VP to address World Peace Forum 2013
Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will address the second annual World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University on June 27, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman announced Thursday.Spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily press briefing that Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Dmitry Mezentsev and several ...
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Tech Weekly Podcast How can technology empower the young of the developing world
Technology and digital tools can empower children and young people in developing nations, but what is the role of business in this - and where do the challenges ...
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Mystery after Putin ally fired in fake press release
Russian security services sought Thursday to unravel a mystery after a fraudster managed to fool the country's news agencies into believing one of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies had been "fired" from his ...
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Albuquerque leading the way in sustainable development
The Global Warming debate over whether humans or natural processes are to blame for rising temperatures, is far from settled. But for many environmentalists and conservation groups there is a concern that the debate may detract from the fact that something must still be done about the unsustainable way in which humans currently live.
Albuquerque is leading many cities in the United States, and even the world, in efforts to develop a sustainable development program by which future generations will not have to suffer for the industry and economic growth of the present. Read more
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