United Nations

Facebook blows cover of UK’s next chief spy

The Herald (Free subscription) | 24 minutes ago

He has the world’s most sophisticated security technology at his disposal and has made a distinguished career keeping state secrets.

• Blackmail warning over MI6 chief - Daily Express
• Online photographs of next MI6 chief 'not a state secret' - The Irish Times
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Army stops Honduran president's plane landing as he tries to fly home

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Manuel Zelaya the ousted president of Honduras was forced to abandon an attempt to fly home when the army blocked a runway amid violent scenes at the airport.

Obama Admin Calls for Universal Access to Abortion at United Nations Meeting

LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- At United Nations (UN) headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil.

G8 shifts focus from food aid to farming

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

US, Japan, Europe and Canada connect food security closely with economic growth and social progress as well as political stability in major scheme against global hunger

Myanmar junta snubs United Nations secretary-general

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Yangon - Myanmar's junta on Saturday snubbed United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's requests to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, or even to visit the Nobel peace laureate, who is currently in a Yangon jail, sources said. Ban arrived i...

Iran releases Greek journalist

Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

TEHRAN, July 5 (UPI) -- Iran released a Greek journalist detained since the June 12 elections, a foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. Jason Athanasiadis, who was working for The Washington Times, was covering post-election events when he was arrested because of unethical and unprofessional behavior and his role in fueling the recent unrest, a press release from the IRIB news agency reported. Hassan...

• Iran says released detained Washington Times journalist - Reuters
• EXTRA: Iran releases Greek-British correspondent - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Tegucigalpa Nights: Mel Zelaya's Triumphant...Return?

BoRev.Net (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

This is getting weird. We'll do our best to keep you updated. The constitutional president of Honduras, accompanied by the president of the United Nations General Assembly, is circling the Tegucigalpa airport right now, in a Venezeulan plane, b/c the...

U.N.s DEscoto to travel to Honduras with Zelaya

Financial24 (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

WASHINGTON, July 5 - United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto will accompany ousted President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Sunday . 'There is a great mobilization of people in Tegucigalpa a ...

Head of Joint Chiefs Discuses North Korea, 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'

THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, July 5, 2009 -- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff addressed the situation in Iraq, relations with North Korea, China and Russia and possible changes to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy during an appearance on a television news show today. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told CNN’s John King, on the network’s State of the Union program,...

• Chairman Addresses Iraq, North Korea, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' - Department of Defense

Che (Parts 1 and 2)

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens reviews Che, Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour biopic of the famous revolutionary, released by Optimum in a two-DVD set.

Independence for Honduras, Evil from Correa-Venezuela-Obama Team

ecrisis (Free subscription) | 37 minutes ago

July 5, 2009 The United States of America was unabashedly founded on divine- from God- principles. Today, the Obama team of the United States of America would do well to re read their own constitution and separation from Great Britan testament....along with finally reading the constitution of Honduras, Ecuador and Venezuela plus the ALBA constitution that they are selling to a hapless people called...

Recession pushed 90 mln into extreme poverty

Reuters (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) - The global recession has pushed up to 90 million more people into extreme poverty, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that a reduction in foreign aid could cause more hunger and disease.

Yet More On Honduras

Diplomatic Blogoir (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Witty Ivor (sneaking past my comment box defences without leaving an email address) piles on the pressure: This is splendidly comical. On one side, the United Nations, the OAS, the United States government and, apparently, most informed opinion worldwide. Lined up against them, someone who spent 12 months as Honduran Minister of Culture - a political big-hitter, quite clearly - and your good self....

UN says Israeli seizure of aid ship a crime; US rep still jailed

Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A UN representative has called Israel's seizure of a ship carrying relief aid to Gaza "unlawful" as an ex-US Congresswoman and an Irish Nobel laureate were still in jail after their arrest in the incident. Israeli authorities on Tuesday intercepted the vessel, which was also carrying 21 pro-Palestinian activists, as part of its naval blockade of Gaza. Richard Falk, the United Nations special...

High noon in Honduras as Zelaya kept out

The Independent (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Violent clashes erupted at the airport in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa last night, as president Manuel Zelaya staged a dramatic attempt to return to the country, one week after being deposed in a coup.

The Origins of Earth Day

bsalmons | 22/04/2009

Since the inception of Earth Day, the holiday has become an international effort to improve environmental sustainability from air quality and global warming to wildlife protection and recycling efforts. In 1992, the United Nations recognized the growing need to maintain environmental health with an Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. While Earth Day has changed a great deal from its original demonstration-based

Communist Party USA Honors “International Women’s Day”

buffoon | 09/03/2009

The glee the American Communist party proclaim over everything Obama has done, is doing and plans to do is telling. The same overwhelming approval is shown in the appointment of Hilda Solis. Obama and his administration not communist? Comrade puuhhlease… Voices of the Communist Party March 8 International Women’s Day was born of the struggles of women in the textile mills in our country at the turn

AIDS in Asia and Bangladesh

khairulalam | 23/02/2009

AIDS in Asia and Bangladesh -Mohammad Khairul Alam- -Executive Director- -Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation- -24/3 M. C. Roy Lane- -Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh- rainbowngo@gmail.com www.newsletter.com.bd Tell: 880-2-8628908 Mobile: 01711344997 The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to spread around the world. As per the estimates of United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 39.5 million...