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Although the motives that sparked the Arab Spring revolts are wildly different from the motives behind the recent anarchic violence in the UK, a common dominator is disillusioned youth, according to the Geneva-based NGO Interpeace ...
When thinking of the world’s most expensive cities, places like New York, Paris and London traditionally come to mind. But not only are they no longer among the top ten in a 2011 survey ...
The three year tenure of French diplomat, Alain Le Roy, as head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations comes to an end on August 10th with no successor as yet announced. Le Roy commanded ...
A judge in Kiev has decided not to release Yulia Tymoshenko (August 10), the Ukraine opposition leader who was jailed for contempt of court after being charged with abuse of power. Thousands of her supporters ...
China’s first aircraft carrier made its debut five-day voyage on August 15th, returning to a crowd who welcomed the giant vessel belonging to the resurgent People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with fireworks. However, at ...
In the face of the global recession and decelerating world economy, the UN is placing a word limit on the flood of documents produced by its offices. It is an attempt to meet Ban-Ki Moon ...
Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, gave as good as she got on a popular American TV comedy show (August 15) answering questions both serious and off-the wall posed by host Stephen ...
ICC (International Criminal Court) Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said on August 19 that because Syria has not accepted the jurisdiction of the Court, the ICC lacks the authority to investigate and prosecute those responsible for ...
Exxon Mobile, America’s largest company, won a major contract to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean (August 31), beating competitors such as BP (British Petroleum) which had been trying to land the deal ...
The Geneva-based OIF (Organization Internationale de Francophonie) is disturbed by the prevalence of the English language over French, the historic language of diplomacy, whether in UN documents, meetings or in the corridors of the UN ...
Switzerland has decided it will not hand over private bank data to the United States as demanded in a letter to the Swiss government published in two Swiss newspapers on August 31 from US Deputy ...
The US State Department has gone on the offensive to counter efforts by Republicans in the US House of Representatives to cut off funding to the United Nations unless specific reforms are made. In a ...
According to the world’s top reinsurance company, Germany’s Munich Re, 2011 has been the worst year in history in terms of losses due to natural catastrophe. In a statement released on September 9 ...
The biggest rogue trading incident in Europe since Jérôme Kerviel's case at the Société Générale in 2008, has dragged UBS's shares down more than 8 percent after the ...
The world’s second fastest-growing economy has embarked on a project of colossal proportions as it seeks to lift over 400 million Indians out of poverty and enfranchise a population of 1.2 billion through ...
China may not share a long border with Laos but the untapped resources of this beautiful, rural country present a temptation hard to resist. China has become Laos’ second largest investor and trading partner with ...
What is the future of printed media? Are we heading towards the disappearance of the traditional newspapers or a re-birth of the printed media through the digital world by the use of technology ? Francis Gurry ...
In a speech at Deutsche Bank in Berlin Thursday (Oct. 6th), World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy commented on the future of the multilateral trading system and advocated for WTO members to "keep multilateral cooperation ...
Even as the US House of Representatives approved a bill (October 14) to slash US dues to the United Nations by half, a recent national opinion poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans support ...
"More than 526,000 people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. One in every ten of all reported violent deaths around the world occur in so-called conflict settings or during terrorist ...
According to the latest Red List of Threatened Species, 25% of all mammals are seen to be at serious risk of extinction. The report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUNC) The overall ...
Amnesty International and the UN Human Rights Committee have both condemned the executions of two death row inmates in Belarus whose cases were under review by the UN. The men were identified by the UN ...
The Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has lifted its freeze on aid to China despite a dispute over alleged corruption and misuse of the funding. The Fund said it took the ...
A US Embassy cable released by Wikileaks (September 01) has revealed that United Nations peacekeepers from Benin stationed in the Ivory Coast lured underage girls in the town of Toulepleu to engage in sexual activity ...
US environmental groups and progressive Democrats are furious at a decision by the Obama administration to abandon plans to impose stricter ozone pollution standards and stick with the looser Bush-era standards. The announcement (September 2 ...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has strongly criticized the financial behavior of richer nations and the austerity measures they adopted after the 2008 financial crisis. The 2011 Trade and Development Report ...
China may have a convertible currency by 2015 according to reports in the state-run press and comments made to European Union officials in Beijing. If it happens, it would mean that the yuan would become ...
There may be a major shift in transatlantic relationships going on according to the Trans-Atlantic Trends 2011 survey released by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the private Italian foundation, Compagnia di ...
Only weeks after the Obama administration denounced efforts by Congressional Republicans to slash US contributions to the United Nations, the world body announced a proposed budget for the next two years of $5.2 billion ...
The exchange rate policy established by the Chinese government is not the only challenge for the American economy. Commenting this week (Oct. 5th) in Santiago, Chile on U.S. pressure to allow the yuan to ...
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