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Libya’s Leaders, the UN Says, Value Democracy
Very soon after the reported death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Surt on Oct. 20, the United Nations responded with a statement by the secretary-general calling for reconciliation and national unity...
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A Man for the Moment in the Middle East
Nabil Elaraby is a name to remember as crisis builds in Syria and citizens in other countries in the Arab world worry about where their hard-won revolutions are taking them. Elaraby, a 76-year-old...
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Top US Official at the UN to Leave Post
B. Lynn Pascoe, an American diplomat who has served as under secretary-general for political affairs during Ban Ki-moon’s first term, is leaving that key position early in the new year, as the...
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ICC Staff Members Released in Libya
Libyan authorities have released the four International Criminal Court staff members who have been held in Zintan after their visit on June 7, 2012, to Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son of Col. Muammar...
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Her Job? To Welcome Boat Migrants Landing at Sicily’s Ports
During one rescue operation in the Mediterranean in March 2014, above, 186 people from Nigeria, Pakistan, Nepal, Ethiopia, Sudan, Malaysia and Syria were transferred from one ship to another, the San...
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Will All of Syria’s Arsenal of Chemical Weapons Be Destroyed?
Sigrid Kaag, the head of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons joint mission to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria. Here, she addresses the press at the UN in May...
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The UN’s Mission in Mali: A Deadly Fight Against Terrorists
A memorial was held for two UN peacekeepers, from Burkina Faso, at the UN’s headquarters in Mali in August 2014. Thirty-four peacekeepers have been killed in Mali since 2013, the deadliest current UN...
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Europe Forges Ahead to ‘Disrupt’ Human Smuggling at Sea From Libya
Migrants at the port of Augusta in Sicily briefed by the International Organization for Migration, June 2015. FRANCESCO MALAVOLTA/IOMAfter a month of near silence in Europe on a proposal to stop human...
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In Italy, a Patchwork of Services for Migrants Arriving at Its Shores [Video]
ROME — Italy is a slender peninsula ringed by 4,722 miles of coastline, a blessing that brings thousands of Italians to the sea each August for Ferragosto, the country’s summer vacation period. The...
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Europe Pushes Ahead for More Aid to Syrians and to Disrupt Human Smuggling
Migrants rescued by European naval ships in the Mediterranean on Sept. 19, 2015. EUNAVFORSeizing a chance to respond more coherently to the deadly situation in Syria, the European Union and Jordan are...
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Feelings Hurt, Yemeni-Americans in New York City Protest the Trump...
Yemeni-Americans protesting the executive order halting visas for Yemeni nationals, held at Brooklyn Borough Hall, New York City, Feb. 2, 2017. JOE PENNEYBROOKLYN, N.Y. — Thousands of Yemeni-Americans...
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Rape by Terrorists: A UN Report Documents Sexual Attacks in War
Yazidi resistance fighters in Sinjar, Iraq, 2015. A new UN report documents sexual violence against women in war, including attacks by ISIS on a “horrific scale.” CREATIVE COMMONSMoving away from...
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The UN Formalizes Its Partnership With Sant’Egidio, the Rome-Based Mediator
Displaced people in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, watching peacekeepers arriving at the M’Poko airport in 2014. The airport became a huge refugee camp. CREATIVE COMMONSThe United...
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Top US Official at the UN to Leave Post
B. Lynn Pascoe, an American diplomat who has served as under secretary-general for political affairs during Ban Ki-moon’s first term, is leaving that key position early in the new year, as the...
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A Hint on Confronting Islamist Power. Or Maybe Not.
Twenty-four former Taliban members reintegrating into Afghan society handing in their weapons and aligning with the government, Kandahar Province, Dec. 9, 2013. US ARMY/PFC. ANDREW MILLER Will it never...
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Getting to Know Mediterranean Farmers: Agritourism Hits Sicily
Fields of artichokes — carciofi — stretch to the horizon at a farm in Belpasso, facing west, in Sicily. Agritourism business on the Italian island is growing but the work is nearly round the clock....
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After 50 Years of UN Sanctions, Is the System Broken?
Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, at an African Union conference in Addis Ababa, February 2009. Steps to calm Libya’s violent Arab Spring protests in 2011 through dialogue were stopped cold by a...
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UN Sanctions for Sexual Violence in Libya Approved, but Russia Resisted
Migrants in the Abu Salim detention center, in southern Tripoli, holding about 1,200 people and run by the Libyan interior ministry. Of such centers, it is considered one of the better managed in the...
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Feelings Hurt, Yemeni-Americans in New York City Protest the Trump...
Yemeni-Americans protesting the executive order halting visas for Yemeni nationals, held at Brooklyn Borough Hall, New York City, Feb. 2, 2017. JOE PENNEYBROOKLYN, N.Y. — Thousands of Yemeni-Americans...
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Rape by Terrorists: A UN Report Documents Sexual Attacks in War
Yazidi resistance fighters in Sinjar, Iraq, 2015. A new UN report documents sexual violence against women in war, including attacks by ISIS on a “horrific scale.” CREATIVE COMMONSMoving away from...
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