UN: 50 peacekeepers punished for sex abuses

At least 50 peacekeepers have received punishments ranging from reduction in military rank to eight months imprisonment for committing sexual abuses on United Nations missions since 2007, the U.N. said Thursday.

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‘Astro Boy’ a wild and wonderful robot romp

Given my somewhat idiosyncratic taste in family films, I should probably start this review with a disclaimer — if you thought I was crazy for championing “Meet the Robinsons” and “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,” then I’m probably never going to convince you that “Astro Boy” is a delightfully funny and poignant family film that’s not afraid to address adult themes.

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UN peacekeeper killed by blast in south Lebanon

A United Nations peacekeeper in south Lebanon was killed by an explosion Wednesday while clearing unexploded ordnance, a U.N. official said.

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Accounts by European observers monitoring August's Georgia-Russia war have cast doubt on pro-Western Georgian claims that it was attacked first, The New York Times reported.

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TIRANA, Albania: Albania's Defense Ministry says it will send 62 soldiers to Chad and the Central African Republic as part of a European Union mission to protect refugees from Sudan's Darfur region. Lawmakers voted late Monday to contribute to the EU force.

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United Nations officials will commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of peacekeeping by gathering later this week at the world body's headquarters in New York for a wreath-laying ceremony to honour the more than 2,400 blue helmets – including 90 last year – who have died in s …

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The world's first all-female unit of United Nations peacekeepers has been deemed a success, and has had its mission extended for another six months

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A Finnish peacekeeper died of wounds received in a roadside bomb attack in Maimana in Afghanistan Wednesday morning, the Finnish Defence Command said in a statement.

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Finnish Peacekeeper Dies in Afghanistan

Finnish peacekeeper has died in Afghanistan Maimana in bomb attack 23.05.2007.

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Just as they have done in Congo, Liberia, Cambodia, Bosnia, et. al., the Nobel Prize winning UN peacekeepers immediately engage in pedophilia as soon as their boots hit the ground.

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At first glance, Mohamed Sa'ad Abubakar's curriculum vitae may not be many people's idea of what it takes to become the Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's large Muslim community and heir to the 200-year-old throne founded by his great grandfather, the 19th Century Is …

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