By Baudelaire Ndong Ella, President, United Nations Human Rights Council I do wish all those people criticizing the UNHRC for its important work would understand that we are first and foremost a human rights council. We’re a rights council run by humans. ...
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Washington, DC, August 16 – President Obama took the case for a limited strike against ISIS targets to Congress this week, arguing that a contentious, politically fraught process an and uncertain outcome were the only way to ensure that no ...
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Washington, August 15 – Following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri this week and the heavy-handed police response to the ensuing protests, the Obama administration has instructed the Pentagon to put on hold any scheduled ...
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Tel Aviv, August 15 – In its latest report on what it calls Israeli intransigence, Peace Now calls attention to the Jewish State’s declared intent of maintaining itself despite opposition from hundreds of millions of opponents. Peace Now called the ...
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Gaza City, August 15 – GL-5678832, a Chinese- made Grad missile, is the only unit in its lot of 32 missiles to remain unused in the recent Hamas-Israel conflict, and is questioning its self-worth. “I don’t know what they think ...
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Damascus, Syria, August 14 – Now that a cease-fire has taken effect between Israel and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, international attention is returning to anything but the ongoing civil war in Syria. The war, which has claimed more than 150,000 ...
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Gaza City, August 14 – Claiming that the flowery Middle Eastern rhetoric of his organization has been misunderstood, Qassam Brigades commander Muhammad Dieff, who spearheads Hamas’s efforts to wipe Jews off the map, told reporters that the language of his ...
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Paris, August 12 – High-ranking officials in countries such as Britain and France are openly siding with Palestinians against Israel in an effort to maintain political power by appealing to Muslim immigrants, recalling the pre-World-War-II days when appeasing the uncompromising ...
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Tzfat, Israel August 13 – A local receptionist is facing suspicions of sorcery today because she managed to put her flash drive in a computer’s USB port without having to turn it over because it was facing the wrong way. ...
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Rafah, August 13 – One patriotic and enterprising Gaza printer made a figurative killing last month after coming up with the idea of selling blank books with Quran covers at a steep discount for purposes of posing just so in ...
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