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CNN
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The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hear from a Zimbabwean opposition leader Tuesday on the country's post-election violence and humanitarian crisis. Tendai Biti, secretary-general for the Movement for Democratic Change, will present evidence that t..
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CNN
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A bomb tore through a pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing 13 people and wounding 58 others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. Four police officers and 10 children were among the wounded.
The bomb had been stashed in a box and went off in the..
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Al Jazeera
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Intra-Sunni conflict
The 65-year-old Sunni sheikh was the fourth city council chairman to be killed in some 14 months as fighters target fellow Sunnis willing to co-operate with the US and its Iraqi partners.
The US military confirmed the killin..
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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran's U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N..
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Washington Post
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Iran demanded Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council condemn what it said was Israel's clandestine development of nuclear weapons and "compel" it to place all its nuclear facilities under U.N. inspection...
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BBC News
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A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said.
More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added.
Karma is in the mainly Sunni Mu..
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MSNBC
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Iraq’s presidency council has cleared the way for the long-delayed execution of Saddam Hussein’s cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as “Chemical Ali,” to be carried out, Iraqi officials said on Friday.
The execution of Majeed, once one of the..
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BBC News
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Serbia's foreign minister has urged the United Nations Security Council to oppose the province of Kosovo's expected declaration of independence.
Vuk Jeremic said Serbia would not use force to stop the secession but warned that allowing it would give a..
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BBC News
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has warned Russia that "intimidation" of British Council officials is "completely unacceptable".
The council is "deeply concerned" about its staff's safety after its employees were interviewed by security services and a..
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BBC News
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The UN Security Council has adopted a statement deploring Burma's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
The agreement came after China lifted its objections to a statement first drafted by the US, UK and France.
It represents the first tim..
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BBC News
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The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the worsening crisis in Burma, after police used live rounds and tear gas against anti-government protesters.
The government confirmed one death as the result of their efforts to halt the 10,000-strong demo..
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Al Jazeera
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Somalia is at a critical crossroads and it is the right time for the United Nations Security Council to assist in the maintenance of peace and security," Gedi said.
"It's not fair to say, 'Make peace and I will come and keep it', It's not right to i..
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CNN
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Monday dissolved the Palestinian national security council in an effort to further isolate Hamas in Gaza, according to a Palestinian political source.
The council was formed by the former Fatah-Hamas unity..
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FOX News
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Supporters of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri cheered and wept and some danced in the streets to celebrate the U.N. Security Council approval of an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in his killing.
About 200 people holding..
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Washington Post
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A sharply divided U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to create an international criminal tribunal to prosecute the masterminds of the February 2005 suicide bombing that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri and 22 others.
The vote wi..
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SF Gate
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has put his personal diplomatic clout on the line to end the bloodshed in Darfur, demanding a cease-fire and fresh peace talks in a letter to Sudan's president, U.S. and Sudanese diplomats said this weekend.
Ban has a..
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USA Today
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After marathon negotiations, the U.N. Security Council agreed on a watered-down statement Thursday expressing "grave concern" at Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines and calling for an early resolution of the problem including their release...
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CNN
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Iran has said it could delay the release of a British woman captured last week along with 14 other military personnel if the UK takes the issue to the U.N. Security Council or freezes relations.
In video footage aired Wednesday, Faye Turney, the only w..
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BBC News
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The UN Security Council has unanimously voted in favour of new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme.
The decision broadens the limited sanctions imposed in December 2006.
The new sanctions block Iranian..
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CBS News
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to impose new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium a move intended to show Tehran that defiance will leave it increasingly isolated.
Iran immediately rejected the sanctions Satu..
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