UN Security Council extends mission in Haiti

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to renew its peacekeeping mission in Haiti for another year, saying it is important for the troops to keep working with the government to reduce violence and crime.

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Envoys Meeting to Discuss Iran Nukes

Iran's top nuclear envoy said Wednesday he expected "new ideas" from a senior EU official at talks on resolving the deadlock between Tehran's refusal to freeze its uranium enrichment program and U.N Security Council demands that it do so.

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Iran Nuke Negotiations Go Into 2nd Day

Iranian and European Union negotiators said Sunday they made progress toward solving the impasse over Tehran's refusal to meet U.N Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment, which can be used to make nuclear weapons.

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"President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing." -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24

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The trouble is that when you penalise pariahs and try to make fools of them, and then you strike at them with military force, they might get back at you in ways that you never thought of...

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The extent of President Obama's naivete - or duplicity - was on display Friday at the G20 summit when the president, flanked by Mr.

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When it comes to the nuclear-weapons issue, President Obama wants to be a global community organizer. However, what we really need are some tough beat cops with a mandate to clean up the neighborhood.

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The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a U.S-drafted resolution Thursday morning that affirms many of the steps President Obama plans to pursue as part of his vision for an eventual "world without nuclear weapons." More Articles

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A key group of Burma's South East Asian neighbours has issued a rare statement condemning the conviction of Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

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NEW DELHI: With China blocking UN Security Council sanctions against Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, India has provided detailed information to it about his involvement in terror activities and hopes Beijing would support the move.

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At this moment the Kang Nam, a North Korea tramp freighter, is on the high seas tailed by a team of American destroyers and submarines and watched by reconnaissance satellites and aircraft. On board, its cargo could be plutonium pellets, missile parts or semi-ripe melons.

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WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said the United States would enforce sanctions set in the 1874 UN Security Council Resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), NBC networks reported on Sunday.

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The new US policymakers led by President Obama must now shelve the messy canvas that was left for them by George W Bush. That canvas is in shreds and beyond repair.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told him, "the people of India deeply love you." One official proposed awarding him the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India), the country's highest civilian honour.

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Despite the political upheavals in Thailand that aborted summit meetings scheduled in Pattaya between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and its dialogue partners, the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea managed to meet and reach agreement on pushing forward the six-p …

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The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, accordin …

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US President Barack Obama has led international condemnation of North Korea this morning after it launched an intercontinental rocket over Japan, defying weeks of warnings from world leaders and risking new sanctions and high level denunciation in the UN Security Council.

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling clique have murdered hundreds of thousands of indigenous black African residents in Darfur and other parts of Sudan.

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An ex-UN prosecutor has said that following the issuance of an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan, former US President George W. Bush could -- and should -- be next on the International Criminal Court's list.

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The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says today the world public opinion is against Israel due to its crimes in the Gaza Strip. In an interview with Press TV he termed receiving sympathy from the world as "a big victory for Palestinians."

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday "it's hard" for Israeli troops to shield civilians in Gaza because the area is so densely populated and Hamas uses people as human shields.

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Libya presented a draft resolution from the Arab League to a UN Security Council emergency meeting that calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

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"While condemning the rocket attacks by Hamas that led to the death of one Israeli civilian, she [UN human rights chief Navi Pillay] also strongly condemned Israel's disproportionate use of force resulting in the reported death of more than 270, a large number of which were civ …

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Even as Indian officials lambasted Pakistan as the "epicenter" of terrorism and dismissed its crackdown on extremist groups as inadequate in the wake of the attacks last month in Mumbai, they all but ruled out the prospect of a military confrontation.

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The UN Security Council has condemned a rampage by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Hebron, which came after they were evicted from a disputed building in the West Bank city.

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Has anyone in Washington noticed? The new US raids into Pakistan and Syria are, as was the invasion of Iraq, in blatant violation of international law.

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Iraq hasn't gotten much attention recently in the American presidential campaign, thanks to the reduction in violence there, but US policymakers are increasingly worried about what's ahead.

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So Iran claims the west is against it's independent positions and that is why it did not get elected to the UN Security Council.

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