The United Nations high commissioner for human rights condemned Sudan’s attack on a camp in Darfur for displaced persons “disproportionate and excessive.” Thirty-one people, including seven children, were killed Monday in the attack in the Kalma camp
The abduction and sale of children in purported adoptions are rife in Nepal, a United Nations study released on Friday said. It urged the government to encourage adoptions by Nepalese families. Last year Nepal suspended adoptions by foreign families
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The above file photo (2004) shows a sniper taking aim at Ossetian rebels in South Ossetia to allow the Georgian Army forces to move forward Photograph: Jonathan Alpeyrie
As the parliament of Georgia voted to approve closing
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The UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
At his second plea hearing before his trial for charges of genocide in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Karadzic refused to
UNITED NATIONS—Deploying all 26,000 members of a peacekeeping force in conflict-wracked Darfur will take many more months because of growing insecurity and logistical difficulties, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report circulated
The nature of nations, like people, never changes. Today's political realists say economics rather than military might has become the guiding principle of countries, but the conflict in Georgia shows otherwise, argues Robert Kagan.
A convoy of Russian
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE:
HARARE, Aug 30 (IPS) - In 2006, there was shared concern among donors and womens organisations over the fragmented approaches to gender and womens empowerment programmes in Zimbabwe.
"This resulted in lack of clarity
CUBA:
HAVANA, Aug 29 (IPS) - In the new school year, which begins next Monday, Cubas educational system will be trying out several changes aimed at overcoming the decline in the quality of teaching, blamed on a shortage of teachers and
21 al-Qaeda members arrested in Turkey ISTANBUL: Turkish police on Friday arrested 21 suspected members of al-Qaeda in a major