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Syria death toll at least 93,000, says UN

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 13 () - At least 93,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict, according to latest United Nations figures. This represents a rise of more than 30,000 since the UN last issued figures covering the period to November 2012.

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Climate change – what next after the 2C boundary?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - The modification of the 2C climate target will put an end to the vision of a "science-based" climate policy This Friday, another frustrating round of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ends in Bonn/Germany. It is highly doubtful that the international community will be able to agree on a treaty that would commit all industrialised countries and emerging economies to binding emissions reduction targets by the end of 2015.

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2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Jun. 10 (News Report) - BELLE ANSE, Haiti (AP) — The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. ...

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Waiting on new climate deal 'will set world on a path to 5C warming'

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Fiona Harvey - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - International Energy Agency chief economist says rising emissions make limiting increase to 2C 'extremely challenging' The world cannot afford to wait for a new global climate change agreement to come into force in 2020, because doing so will mean an end to hopes of limiting global warming to moderate levels, one of the world's foremost authorities on energy has warned. Carbon dioxide emissions from energy rose by 1.4% in 2012 to a record high of more than 31bn tonnes, according to a report from the International Energy Agency on Monday, driven in part by a striking 6% rise in emissions from Japan following its phase-out of nuclear power and continuing growth in emissions from China. Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA, and one of the world's most respected energy experts, told the Guardian that greenhouse gas emissions were continuing to rise so fast that pinning hopes on a replacement for the Kyoto protocol would set the world on a path to 5C of warming, which would be ...

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Israel 'not getting involved' in Syria war

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Israel aims to stay out of Syria's civil war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, despite its recent attacks on targets inside the country. "Israel is not getting involved in the civil war in Syria, as long as the fire is not directed at us," Netanyahu told his cabinet in broadcast remarks on Sunday.

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UN peacekeepers hurt in Syria Golan clashes

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Jun. 06 (News Report) - Two UN peacekeepers have been wounded during clashes between Syrian government forces and rebels over control of a border crossing near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Austrian government decided to withdraw all 380 of its UN peacekeepers from th

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Tom Donilon resigning as national security adviser; Susan Rice to replace him

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson, Colum Lunch - Jun. 05 (News Report) - National security adviser Thomas E. Donilon will resign his post, White House officials said Wednesday, and will be replaced by U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice , a close confidant of President Obama with deep foreign policy experience who is disliked by Republicans but had been widely expected to move into the job.

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Neocons praise Samantha Power pick

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - Power's staunch advocacy of U.S. intervention on moral grounds has long appealed to neoconservatives who share her view that the principle of sovereign national borders is not absolute.

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Britain’s Self-Defeating Referendum

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MICHAEL C. WILLIAMS - May. 29 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Britain’s Self-Defeating Referendum

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Stop the Plunder of Africa

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KOFI ANNAN - May. 09 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Stop the Plunder of Africa

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UN investigating Syria chemical weapons use

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 27 (News Report) - A UN spokesman has said that investigators from the world body have started collecting evidence outside Syria on the suspected use of chemical weapons. Ban Ki-moon has written to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a new request for access.

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Congress pushes for ‘Internet Freedom’ as U.N. showdown looms

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Apr. 22 (News Analysis) - The House is pushing forward in an effort to block a United Nations-related group from potentially allowing countries to censor the Internet, before an international showdown this fall.

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UN arms trade treaty: Will it receive US Senate approval?

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 11 (News Analysis) - Why the new initiative is so controversial among US conservatives. ...

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South Korea raises alert with North to 'vital threat'

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 10 (Special Report) - 'Anytime now' North Korea is believed to have completed preparations for a missile launch after it moved two Musudan missiles to its east coast, In anticipation, the South Korea-US Combined Forces have raised their alert level to Watchcon 2, to increase surveillance monitoring, Yonhap quoted a senior military official as saying..

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UN General Assembly to vote on arms treaty

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 02 (News Report) - The UN General Assembly is due to vote on what would be the first treaty to regulate the $70bn global trade on conventional arms. The vote on Tuesday comes a week after Iran, Syria and North Korea blocked the accord by consensus despite widespread suppor

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Religious Leaders Call on President Obama to Reconsider His Position on Drone Strikes

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Mar. 30 (Opinion) - Six religious leaders from across the country joined together during the week of Easter to call on President Obama to reexamine his position on drone strikes. In briefings and explanations to the American public President Obama's administration has used Just War Theory to justify CIA and U.S. military use of drone strikes throughout the world. Joining forces with director and producer Robert Greenwald, these rabbis, reverends, and priests created a short video sharing why drone strikes in Pakistan violate Just War Theory.

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Why invading Iraq was a terrible mistake

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Hans Blix - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - I headed the U.N. inspections in Iraq at the time of the war 10 years ago. Today, I look again at the reasons why this terrible mistake -- and violation of the U.N. charter -- took place and explore if any lessons be drawn. Here are my thoughts.

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UN report suggests Palestinian rocket killed baby in Gaza

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 12 (News Report) - It is likely an errant Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli air strike, killed the baby of a BBC picture editor during fighting in Gaza last November, a UN report has indicated, challenging the widely believed story behind an image that became a symbol of what Palestinians said was Israeli aggression.

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China Knocks on Iceland's Door

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Einar Benediktsson, Thomas R. Pickering - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - As polar ice recedes, Iceland has become a strategic gateway to energy sources and new trade routes — and Beijing is showing its interest.

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China Says It Won't Forsake North Korea, Despite Support for UN Sanctions

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jane Perlez - Mar. 09 (News Report) - China's foreign minister said Saturday that Beijing would not abandon North Korea, reiterating China's longstanding position that dialogue, not sanctions, was the best way to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons.

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US offers tough new UN sanctions against North Korea

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Mar. 05 (News Analysis) - Backed by China, the United States introduced a U.N. resolution Tuesday that would impose fresh financial and diplomatic sanctions on North Korea.

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For First Time, Baby Cured of H.I.V., Doctors Say

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:20:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ANDREW POLLACK, DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - Mar. 03 (News Report) - Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could lead to more aggressive treatment of babies infected at birth and a sharp reduction in the number of children living with

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A Chance to Right a Wrong in Haiti

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Louise C. Ivers - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - Evidence shows that the United Nations inadvertently started a cholera outbreak that has since killed 8,000 people. It has a moral obligation to help end the crisis.

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Shahbag protesters versus the Butcher of Mirpur

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tahmima Anam - Feb. 13 (News) - Abdul Quader Mollah has finally been convicted of war crimes committed in Bangladesh in 1971. Now a huge popular protest in Dhaka's Shahbag district is demanding the death penalty It all began with a victory sign. When Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary-general of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party, emerged from the supreme court on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 February, he turned to the press waiting outside, smiled, and made a victory sign. An odd reaction for a man just sentenced to life in prison. Mollah smiled because for him, a man convicted of beheading a poet, raping an 11-year-old girl and shooting 344 people during the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence – charges that have earned him the nickname the Butcher of Mirpur – the life sentence came as a surprise . Earlier this month, a fellow accused, Abul Kalam Azad, who is reputed to have fled to Pakistan, was sentenced to death in absentia . When Mollah emerged from the courthouse, a group of online activists and bloggers ...

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Op-Ed Contributor: Why Palestine Should Take Israel to Court in The Hague

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By GEORGE BISHARAT - Jan. 30 (Opinion) - LAST week, the Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, declared that if Israel persisted in its plans to build settlements in the currently vacant area known as E-1, which lies between Palestinian East Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adum

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