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Africa: President Sirleaf and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Calls for a Robust Arms Trade Treaty
Monrovia :: Liberia | 10 months ago
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Calls for a Robust Arms Trade Treaty 16 July 2012 press release New York: In a passionate appeal to governments negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations until the
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Aung San Suu Kyi begins UK visit
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due to arrive in the UK, where she is due to meet members of the Royal Family and address Parliament. Ms Suu Kyi will begin her tour at the London School of Economics later and is set to meet the Prince
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AP PHOTOS: Bono's many brushes with greatness
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Chances are if you're a president, premier or plain ol' peacemaker with an eye on publicity, you've managed to get a bit of Bono in your life. The billionaire U2 rocker-cum-humanitarian is spending Monday by the side of Myanmar's
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Japan gives unpopular go-ahead to restart two reactors
Tōkyō :: Japan | 11 months ago
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New Freedom Lets Burmese Air Venom Toward a Muslim Group
Yangon :: Myanmar | 11 months ago
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Over the past year, Myanmar 's government has ended its heavy censorship of the Internet, allowing citizens unfettered access to a wide variety of Web sites that had been banned during military rule. When the government first began dismantling its
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Rohingyas stage protest in Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 11 months ago
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Nearly 1,000 Rohingyas staged an emotional protest near the Myanmar embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Friday demanding the immediate end to violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, formerly known as Arakan. The Muslim Rohingyas make up the bulk of the 80,000
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Towards reconciliation in Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | 12 months ago
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President Thein Sein is genuinely committed to reform, says historian-writer Thant Myint-U. He expresses optimism that the dialogue the regime has initiated with Aung San Suu Kyi will give the country a new, more positive political direction. Since
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Israeli irrigation expert wins World Food Prize
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | 12 months ago
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Iowa (AP) — An Israeli scientist who has reached across political and ethnic boundaries to help dozens of countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia improve agriculture with new methods of irrigation will receive the World Food Prize.
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Maine West students attend Nobel Summit
Yangon :: Myanmar | 12 months ago
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So did Mikhail Gorbachev, one-time leader of the former Soviet Union. All told, 21 Nobel Peace Laureates gathered in Chicago recently for the first World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates hosted on U.S. soil. Taking it all in were Maine West High
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Suu Kyi calls for 'healthy skepticism' on Myanmar
Bangkok :: Thailand | 12 months ago
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Myanmar's opposition leader and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the international community to exercise "healthy skepticism" as her country sheds half a century of military rule. Suu Kyi noted that Myanmar is
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