Tag: ban ki-moon
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#MorningMonarchy: February 1, 2016
Israel pressure, Yemen crises and Venezuela collapse + this day in history w/Voice Of America and our song of the day by Tortoise on your Morning Monarchy for February 1, 2016.
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9/11 updates: investigations, interviews & ‘angel is next’
ahmadinejad urges ban ki-moon to probe 9/11 attacks from afp: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday. “The minimum expectation from your excellency is to set up an independent and…
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un peacekeepers & aid workers abusing kids
from ap: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed “deep concern” Tuesday after a leading children’s charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers. The report (448kb PDF) by Save the Children UK, based on field research in southern Sudan, Ivory Coast and Haiti,…
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violent crackdown launched in myanmar
from ap: Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on demonstrators Wednesday, and witnesses said police beat & dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups & media reported up to eight dead. The military junta’s announcement on state radio and television was the first acknowledgment…
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explosion rattles UN chief’s iraq news conference
from raw story: A mortar blast rocked Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Thursday as Ban Ki-moon held a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, causing the UN chief to flinch. After a brief pause, both men continued to take questions at an event marking Ban’s first visit to the Iraqi capital. An Iraqi…