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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010.

photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams

Nepal's peace process at crossroads: UN chief
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Kathmandu: Nepal's peace process is at crossroads, the head of the United Nations has warned, just two weeks before the planned closure of a UN peace mission in the troubled country. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the lack of progress in the peace process that began when Nepal's bloody civil war ended more than four years ago was a "growing...

File - A woman sleeps on the steps of a hospital adjacent to a cholera treatment centre (CTC) in L’Estere, Haiti, 11 November, 2010.

photo: UN / Logan Abassi

Haiti's cholera deaths increase
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The cholera death toll in Haiti is rising daily, with official figures indicating that 3,333 people have died since the outbreak of the epidemic in mid-October. Official sources state that, as a result of cholera, the numbers have averaged out to around 50 new reported deaths a day. The epidemic, the first in Haiti for more than...

Supporters of opposition leader Alassane Ouattara, make their feelings known, as they sing at an event at a hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday Dec. 30, 2010.

photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

Ivory Coast: UN warns attack 'could reignite' civil war
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned supporters of Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo not to attack his rival Alassane Ouattara's HQ. An attack - threatened for Saturday - could spark civil war, he said. Mr Ouattara, internationally recognised as winner of the presidential poll, is protected by UN soldiers in Abidjan. Regional countries...

South Korean Army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in the early morning at the demilitarized zone(DMZ) in Hwacheon, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009.

photo: AP / Yonhap, Lee Sang-hack

The Koreas’ and America’s Unfinished or All-Out of War
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Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “We lost thirty thousand dead in Korea to save face for the United States and the Untied Nations, not to save South Korea for the South Koreans, and it was undoubtedly worth it. Soviet expectations about the behavior of the United States are one of the most valuable assets we possess in world...

An elderly Afghan man wipes away tears as he walks near the site of an explosion, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec, 5, 2007. A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a minibus carrying Afghan soldiers south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, officials and witnesses said.

photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool

Deadly bomb blast in Afghanistan
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At least 14 Afghan civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Helmand province. The bomb struck a minibus travelling on the main road that connects the Sangin district to the major city of Kandahar on Thursday. Several civilians were also wounded. Ghulam Haidar, who said two of his brothers...

Danish police officers stand guard as one of four suspect arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad arrives at a court in Glostup, south of Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes and brought renewed attention to simmering anger at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which has been the target of several attacks and threats since publishing cartoons of Muhammad in 2005, in what it called a challenge to perceived self-censorship.

photo: AP / Polfoto, Peter Hove Olesen

Three charged over Denmark 'plot'
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Three men suspected of preparing a deadly attack on a newspaper in Copenhagen have been charged by a Danish court with plotting an act of terrorism. Police detained four men in Denmark and one in Sweden on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an armed assault on the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that outraged Muslims in 2005 with cartoons...

Bolivia's President Evo Morales delivers a speech at the presidential palace in La Paz, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.

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Ending fuel subsidies cuts Bolivia's losses, president says
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La Paz, Bolivia (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday defended his decision to end fuel subsidies, a move that caused gasoline and diesel prices to spike and led to protests in major cities since it was announced over the weekend. The country's subsidies led to an artificially low price for diesel and gasoline, which resulted in...

Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians are displayed as an Iraqi army soldier stands guard outside Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. Iraqi Christians are marking a somber Christmas in the face of repeated violence by militants intent on driving their beleaguered community from Iraq.

photo: AP / Hadi Mizban

Two killed and eight injured in bomb attacks on Baghdad Christians
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Grenade attacks and roadside bombing follow al-Qaida threats against families celebrating Christmas in Iraq...

In this file photo of Wednesday April 22, 1998, young Israelis walk under the sign at Auschwitz concentration camp reading "Arbeit Macht Frei," (Work makes you Free) during a tour of the site. A Polish court says Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010 it has issued a European Union arrest warrant for a Swedish citizen suspected of involvement in the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz. Rafal Lisak, spokesman for Krakow's district court, says the warrant was issued Tuesday for Anders Hogstrom, a Swede suspected of incitement to commit theft of a cultural treasure.

photo: AP / Jockel Finck, File

Former neo-Nazi jailed for Auschwitz sign theft
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A former Swedish neo-Nazi was yesterday jailed for more than two years for masterminding the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the entrance of memorial museum on the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The 16ft wide sign, a lasting symbol of the Holocaust which states "Work Sets You Free", was removed from the gate of the...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, center left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev, center right, smile from behind a glass enclosure at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, is in the final year of an eight-year sentence after being convicted of tax evasion, and the new conviction on charges of embezzlement and money laundering could keep him behind bars for several more years.

photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev

Europe, US slam extended jail sentence for Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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EUROPEAN and US leaders have blasted the extended jail sentence for Russian former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a second fraud trial as politically...