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India seeks expansion of UN Security Council
India has underlined the need for expansion of the UN Security Council saying that no change in its composition in decades is an "unnatural situation of stagnation" in a dynamic and rapidly changing international environment. #NewsTracker #UN Security Council #UNSC #Asoke Kumar Mukerji
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Have 'powerful striking means' on standby, says North Korea
North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric on Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations. #NewsTracker #North Korea #UN Security Council #Kim Jong-un #Chuck Hagel
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US deploys warship off South Korea amid soaring tensions on peninsula
The United States has positioned a warship off the Korean coast as a shield against ballistic missile attack as South Korea's new president vowed swift retaliation against a North Korean strike amid soaring tensions on the peninsula. #NewsTracker #South Korea #North Korea #UN Security Council #US warships
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Why plight of Lankan Tamils highlights the hypocrisy of nations
Negotiation rarely if ever has stopped the massacre of people by their own nation. And other nations simply don't want to intervene, unless there's oil. . . and even then, it's usually long after there's no people left to save. #HowThisWorks #United Nations #Sri Lanka #Interventionism #UN Security Council
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Jerusalem PostGermany and Israel both up for UN Security Council
Jerusalem is miffed at Germany’s decision to vie for a seat on the UN Security Council in 2019, a move which would weaken Israel’s already distant chances of sitting on that influential body for the first time, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Israel’s an #The Jerusalem Post #Israel #U N Security Council
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United NationsUN Security Council condemns temporary detention of peacekeepers, looting in Golan
17 May 2013 Members of the Security Council have ‘strongly condemned’ the looting of a UN observation post in the Golan Heights and the temporary detention of three peacekeepers, the third such incident in the past two months. The Security Council, in a #Golan Heights #U N Security Council #United Nations
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InquirerUN: 3 peacekeepers abducted between Israel-Syria
UNITED NATIONS — Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday. Herve Ladsous told a group of reporters that the unarmed observers wer #Syria #Israel #Middle East