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Russia Sends at Least 12 Warships to Syria By Times of Israel staff
Deployment presumably a warning to Israeli and Western officials regarding military intervention against Assad -"Times Of Israel"- In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships...
U.N. General Assembly Condemns Syria as Sceptics Multiply By Thalif Deen
Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, addresses the Assembly on May 15. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider UNITED NATIONS, May 15 2013 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly voted...
U.N., Fluent in Anglo-French, Seeks to Go Multilingual By Thalif Deen
When Egypt’s onetime Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali was running for the post of U.N. secretary-general in late 1991, he had to contend with the candidature of Bernard Chidzero, then foreign minister of Zimbabwe. As the campaign began...
Israeli Attacks on Syria Escape Security Council Scrutiny By Thalif Deen
Critics argue that the silence of the Security Council constitutes an international green light to Israel to continue with its new policy and military aggression against Syria. Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas UNITED NATIONS, May 10 2013...
Over 100 Million Women Lead Migrant Workers Worldwide By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 2013 (IPS) - The face of migration is changing dramatically as women and girls now represent about half of the over 214 million migrants worldwide. Bolivian migrant in the airport in El Alto, next to La...
Cell Phones Yes, Toilets No, World Body Laments By Thalif Deen
Speaking of the widespread sanitation crisis, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson was quick to produce staggering numbers: of the world’s seven billion people, about six billion have mobile phones but only about 4.5 billion have access...
TNA Parliamentarians Sampanthan and Sumanthiran Exposed Muslim MPs political bankruptcy By Latheef Farook
Political bankruptcy of Muslim parliamentarians was exposed by the Tamil National Alliance leader R Sampanthan and the TNA parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran when they raised the issue of growing disastrous hate Muslim campaign in the parliament. As...
Is Anybody Listening? U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn’t Building Nukes. By Nima Shirazi
In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear...
Boston Bombings: One Suspect Killed – Policeman Dead in Shoot-out By Jason Sickles and Dylan Stableford
BOSTON—A late-night police chase and shootout has left one marathon bombing suspect dead and another on the run, police here said, as residents of the still-grieving city were ordered by officials to "shelter in place" while the manhunt...
