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A forensics team found the remains of Collet in the Bekaa Valley last week. Ban expressed his sincere sympathies to Collet’s family, reiterating the UN’s commitment to assist them. -NOW Lebanon
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for a "single global vision" from world leaders to address the problems of world hunger and pollution. Mr Ban's comments came at the start of a UN conference in Rome aimed at stabilising world food prices....
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World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are...
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A United Nations summit on food security vowed in a final declaration on Monday to take "urgent action" to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people around the world. Hunger is "an unacceptable blight on the lives, livelihoods and dignity...
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Deputy Citizens� Protection Minister Spyros Vougias provided further details yesterday in an interview with Reuters, saying authorities would grant citizenship to some 250,000 migrant children born in Greece. �It�s irrational that a child born and educated...
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Gandhi, born on Oct. 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India, is known as the influential leader of non-violent, civil disobedience campaigns to help India achieve independence from British rule. His peaceful tactics, which included fasting, boycotts, and collecting...
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The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, B...He is in Colombo, at the request of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lynn Pascoe is in Colombo for discussions on a number of issues related to the aftermath of the armed conflict.
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He noted that the U.N. consisted of people from all over the world with different backgrounds. "We need to be able to respect the culture, tradition and leadership style of each and every leader," he said. "Different circumstances may require different...
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Clinton, North Korea exchange barbs on nukes Hillary Rodham Clinton and North Korea exchanged pointed barbs Thursday, with Clinton declaring North Korea "has no friends left" and the communist regime calling the U.S. secretary of state a "schoolgirl."
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Ban Strongly Rejects UN As Source Of Casualty Reports New York, Jun 1 2009 2:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his strong concerns over “unacceptably high” civilian casualties in the conflict between the Sri Lankan Government and Tamil...
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