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U.N. General Assembly condemns Syria violence, big-power inaction
World NowThe U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to condemn the Syrian government's latest attacks on its citizens, and criticized Security Council members for failing to take more decisive action to halt the civil war.... -
Food sent to North Korea after floods; nearly 63,000 homeless
World NowThe World Food Program is sending aid to North Korea after devastating floods killed scores of people and left nearly 63,000 homeless.... -
Annan returns to Syria to continue peace talks
World NowUnited Nations special envoy Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus on Sunday for his latest round of talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The former U.N chief’s arrival in the Syrian capital came after Annan acknowledged to a French newspaper that his... -
Syria rebels say they're preparing for war
QUSAIR, Syria — Sitting on a tennis court at a summer villa in the Syrian countryside, 22 would-be rebel fighters watched as a young man took apart and reassembled a machine gun he had picked from a small spread of arms on a plastic lawn table....
Tags: NATO, Free Syrian Army, Weaponry, Armed Conflicts, Kofi Annan
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Islamist rebels in Mali destroy Timbuktu historic sites
World NowRadical Islamists affiliated with Al Qaeda used axes, shovels and automatic weapons to destroy tombs and other cultural and religious monuments in northern Mali for a third day on Monday, including bashing in the door of a 15th Century mosque in Timbuktu,... -
U.N. reports seven peacekeepers killed in Ivory Coast attack
World NowSeven U.N. peacekeeping troops from the African nation of Niger were killed in an attack while on patrol in southwestern Ivory Coast, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday.... -
Syrian children tortured, used as human shields, U.N. report finds
World NowThe Syrian military and armed militias loyal to President Bashar Assad have used children as young as eight as human shields, a new United Nations report found. Children have also been tortured and killed by the Syrian army and its allies; whipped,... -
Rising numbers of children hurt, killed in Afghan conflict, UN says
World NowChildren have been increasingly bearing the brunt of the war in Afghanistan, a new United Nations report says.... -
U.N. debates alternatives to failed Syria peace plan
World NowU.N. special envoy Kofi Annan and other leaders at the world body conceded Thursday that a six-point peace plan for Syria isn't working and called for a new strategy to end the 15-month-old conflict that has taken more than 10,000 lives.... -
U.N. probe in Syria thwarted; Kofi Annan concedes peace plan ignored
World NowU.N. observers in Syria trying to reach the scene of an alleged massacre near the central city of Hama came under small-arms fire and were turned away by government troops and civilians, officials of the world body reported.... -
U.N. observers in Syria blocked from site of alleged massacre
World NowUnited Nations officials said a team of the world body's observers in Syria was blocked and even shot at in its efforts to reach the site of an alleged massacre near the central city of Hama.... -
U.N. official: More than 90 dead in Syria, many of them children
World NowMore than 92 people, a third of them children, were killed in what appeared to be the worst violence against civilians in Syria since a U.N.-backed cease-fire went into effect last month, the chief of the United Nations mission in Syria said Saturday....
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