Countries break deadlock at UN climate talks

Source: Ottawa Citizen

BONN â More than 180 countries agreed on an agenda for work on a new climate treaty by 2015 at United Nations climate talks on Friday, breaking a deadlock over procedure, but mistrust remains that could threaten progress for the rest of the year. â(The w ...
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Somalia: Leaders clear obstacles to ending transitional period

Source: Mike Hitchen Online

UN - 25 May 2012 – Leaders in Somalia have agreed to set up a Constituent Assembly that will adopt the East African nation’s new constitution in line with an existing roadmap to end the current transitional governing arrangement by an upcomin ...
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UN rights chief: Suspend Zimbabwe sanctions

Source: The Jakarta Post

The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections, saying the measures have hurt the country's poorest and most vulnerable ...
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Activist group: Slow progress since Earth Summit 20 years ago

Source: GMANews.tv

PARIS — Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment for future generations, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required to avert climate catastrophe. But even as new warni ...
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Syrian Troops Kill 50

Source: The Daily Beast

Despite the presence of United Nations monitors, violence continues to mar Syria. Activists say an estimated 50 people were killed on Friday by state troops at an antigovernment protest in Houla, a town in Homs provinc ...
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ASIA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 386 25 May 2012

Source: IRIN UN Humanitarian News

BANGKOK, 26 May 2012 (IRIN) - 95526,95534,95507,95504,95505,95506,95496,95503,95488,95495 Theme (s) : [This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the Unit ...
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U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran

Source: Reuters Africa

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment ...
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Dozens killed in clampdown on Syrian protesters

Source: Deutsche Welle

More than 50 people were reportedly killed in Syria on Friday when government forces attacked protesters in the area of Houla in the central Homs province. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 13 children were among the dea ...
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Iran uranium of elevated enrichment raises concern

Source: Los Angeles Times

VIENNA — United Nations experts are investigating why tiny particles of uranium found in an underground Iranian nuclear facility had been enriched beyond levels previously acknowledged, a discovery that raised questions about ...
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