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Seoul says N-Korea fired 3 short-range missiles
North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. #United Nations #NewsTracker #North Korea #Glyn Davies #Shinzo Abe #UN Secuirty Council
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UN condemns Assad forces, but unease grows about rebels
The UN General Assembly condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and praised the opposition on Wednesday, but a decline in support for the resolution suggested growing unease about extremism among Syria's fractious rebels. #World #United Nations #Syria #NewsTracker #David Cameron #Bashar al-Assad #UN General Assembly
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North Korea replaces hardline defense chief
North Korea has replaced it hardline defense chief with a little-known army general. #World #NewsTracker #South Korea #North Korea #Kim Jong-un #Jang Jong Nam #Kim Kyok Sik
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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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France 24
UN - FRANCE: UN adds French Polynesia to decolonisation list
The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to add French Polynesia to its list of territories that should be decolonised, affirming the right of the islands' inhabitants to "self-determination and independence". French Polynesia joins 16 other territories o #Falkland Islands #Tahiti #United Kingdom
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Inquirer
UN: 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
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Bangkok Post
Golan peacekeeping force suffers third abduction: UN
Syrian rebels seized three UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights in the third abduction in two months in the ceasefire zone between Syria and Israel, the UN said Thursday. UN peacekeepers the UN headquarters in the demilitarized United Nations Disengageme #Syria #Golan Heights #United Nations




