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UN World Food Program
United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hu...
2 mentions — 5 days ago
WFP provides school meals to some 22 million children in over 60 different countries. Copyright: WFP/Deepesh ShresthaGiving children food while they are in school has long been a key strategy for aid organizations like WFP, which see it as an investment in the future of a child and ...
More arrests in Woolwich inquiry
BBC News
2 mentions — 4 hours ago
Three further arrests have been made in connection with the murder of off-duty soldier Lee Rigby, police have said.The Met said counter terrorism officers arrested three men, aged 21, 24 and 28, on Saturday evening on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder - a Taser was used on ...
Brazil 'cancels' most African debt
BBC News
4 mentions — 6 hours ago
Brazil has announced that it will cancel or restructure almost $900m (£600m) worth of debt with Africa.Oil- and gas-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Zambia are among the 12 African countries to benefit.The move is seen as an effort to boost economic ties between the world's seventh largest economy and ...
Thousands complete Boston Marathon
BBC News
2 mentions — 4 hours ago
Thousands of runners have completed the final mile of Boston Marathon, five weeks after they were forced to abandon the race after two bombs exploded.Three American flags and one Chinese were carried in remembrance of three people who died by the finishing line, and the policeman killed days ...
Froch wins to retain IBF world title
BBC Sport
2 mentions — 4 hours ago
Carl Froch retained his IBF super-middleweight crown and gained sweet revenge on Mikkel Kessler with a thrilling points decision at London's O2 Arena.The Nottingham fighter started faster but his Danish rival, whobeat Froch in Denmark 2010,found his feet in the middle rounds.But Froch, 35, kept his head and ...
Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Bayern Munich
BBC Sport
3 mentions — 7 hours ago
Goal - Arjen Robben - B Dortmund 1 - 2 Bay Munich Arjen Robben finds the back of the net with a goal from close in low into the middle of the goal. Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Bayern Munich. Robert Lewandowski gives away a free kick for an unfair ...
'Maoist rebels' kill 16 in India
BBC News
5 mentions — 9 hours ago
At least 16 people, including a senior leader of India's governing Congress party, have been killed in an attack by suspected Maoist rebels, officials say. A number of party members and supporters were also injured in the attack south of Raipur, the capital of the central state of ...
French soldier stabbed near Paris
BBC News
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack in the wake of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, killed in London this week."They tried to kill the soldier because he was a soldier," said French Defence Minister Jean-Yves ...
Hezbollah promises Syria 'victory'
BBC News
4 mentions — 11 hours ago
The leader of the Lebanese Shia militant Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, has promised his supporters victory in Syria, where his fighters are backing President Bashar al-Assad.Syrian rebels in the besieged town of Qusair say they are under heavy bombardment from Hezbollah combatants.The town is close to the Lebanese ...
French army to begin Mali pullout
BBC News
6 mentions — 23 hours ago
France is set to begin the first major stage of its military withdrawal from Mali, four months after sending troops to push Islamist rebels out the north.A convoy of 80 lorries will leave a French base outside the capital, Bamako, and drive south to Ivory Coast.They plan to ...
Root ton delights Headingley crowd
BBC Sport
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
Joe Root thrilled his home crowd with his maiden Test century to put England in a solid position against New Zealand at Headingley.The 22-year-old, playing only his sixth Test, put on 124 for the fifth wicket with his Yorkshire team-mate Jonny Bairstow.Root became the first Yorkshireman to score ...
Two child limit imposed on Myanmar's Rohingya
aljazeera.com
2 mentions — 13 hours ago
Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area, and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence.Local officials said on Saturday that the new measure would ...
Unpacking the 2013 Human Development Index
SPERI
2 mentions — 6 days ago
In a notable challenge to the gloom of recession in the West and all the continuing and, indeed scarcely unjustified, talk of continuing crisis, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently published its 2013 Human Development Report (HDR) under the arresting sub-title: ‘Human Progress in a Diverse World’.This ...
Swedish riots spark surprise and anger
The Observer
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Cars burning in Husby as rioting spread to several cities in Sweden last week. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty ImagesThe pace of the neighbourhood watch suddenly picks up. "Here's the fire we've been waiting for," grins Samiy, an Iraqi in a bulky jacket.It's half past two in the morning and ...
Syria town under heavy army shelling
BBC News
3 mentions — 16 hours ago
There has been an upsurge in fighting in the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, both sides in the conflict say.The army, which began an offensive to recapture Qusair last Sunday, says it has now launched a three-pronged attack on the rebel-held town.The rebels say they are under heavy ...
UNHCR concerned about Syrians stuck at border, reiterates call for international support
UNHCR concerned about Syrians stuck at border, rei...
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Newly arrived Syrian refugees in Jordan after crossing the border. Numbers of trying to flee are growing.GENEVA, May 24 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday called on countries around Syria to keep their borders open for refugees while stressing that "urgent and robust" international support for ...
Pakistan bus gas blast kills 17
BBC News
6 mentions — 22 hours ago
At least 17 children have been burned to death after a gas cylinder exploded on their school bus in eastern Pakistan, police have said.At least seven more children were taken to hospital after the blast, which caused the bus to catch fire. The incident took place on the ...
'The cough that paralysed me'
BBC News
2 mentions — 3 hours ago
Three years ago, two days before his 21st birthday, Justin coughed and then collapsed with acute pain in his back and down his legs.After several years of surgical procedures, including undergoing spinal fusion, the damage to his spinal cord left him unable to walk."After the last operation I ...
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ohchr.org
2 mentions — 2 days ago
UN experts call for strengthened protection of more than 260 million victims of caste-based discriminationGENEVA (24 May 2013) – They occupy the lowest levels of strict, hierarchical caste systems founded on notions of purity, pollution and inequality. They face marginalization, social and economic exclusion, segregation in housing, limited access to basic services including water and sanitation and employment, enforcement of certain types of menial jobs, and working conditions similar to slavery.They are the Dalits of South Asia, who constitute the majority of victims of entrenched caste-based discrimination systems which affect ...
Apple 1 from 1976 sells for $650,000
BBC News
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
An original Apple 1 computer from 1976 - one of only six still in working order - has sold at auction in Germany for more than 500,000 euros ($650,000).The Apple 1 was one of the first 50 built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Jobs' ...
Cat Fight! Kadyrov Takes On Moscow Socialite In Feline Beauty Contest
rferl.org
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
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‘MY World’ Survey – first results - half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities
MY World
6 mentions — 1 week ago
New York, 16 May 2013 – Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think about the biggest challenges facing them and ...
Are converts to Islam more susceptible to radicalisation?
audioboo.fm
2 mentions — 19 hours ago
Batool Al-Toma, an Irish-born woman who converted to Islam 25 years ago and Maajid Nawaz, author and co-founder of the anti-extremism think tank, Quilliam, debate if converts to Islam are more susceptible to radicalisation.
Beckham's career is officially over
BBC Sport
2 mentions — 12 hours ago
David Beckham's illustrious 20-year playing career is at an end after he was not named in Paris St-Germain's squad to play at Lorient on Sunday.Beckham, 38, walked off in tears afterlast weekend's home win against Brest,days afterannouncing his retirement.The ex-England captain gained 115 caps for his country, and ...
Warnings over flagship projects
BBC News
2 mentions — 24 hours ago
More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including Universal Credit and the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government annual report has warned.The Major Projects Authority (MPA) has given 32 projects a red or amber/red rating, meaning they are deemed unachievable ...
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. United Nations Peacekeeping
un.org
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Officers from the Indonesian contingent of UNAMID stand in formation during a ceremony for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers in Sudan. On 29 May, UN offices, alongside Member States and non-governmental organizations, hold solemn events to honour fallen peacekeepers. Since the first UN peacekeeping mission was ...
MI5 'approached Woolwich suspect'
BBC News
5 mentions — 1 day ago
MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them, a childhood friend has said.Abu Nusaybah told BBC Two's Newsnight his friend had revealed to him six months ago that the security service had been "knocking on his door".He said Mr Adebolajo told him ...
Un militaire poignardé à la gorge dans le quartier de La Défense
leparisien.fr
5 mentions — 11 hours ago
Roberto Cristofoli | Publié le 25.05.2013, 18h25| Mise à jour :19h01Pas attrapé de suite, il ne sera jamais retrouvé ... Vu la qualité de certaines caméras de surveillance, ça va être compliqué de retrouver un homme aussi "passe partout" .... Aucun signe distinctif ...Seule chance, qu'ils retrouvent du ...
Carl Bernstein: Britain risks a fatal blow to its great democracy - Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
3 mentions — 19 hours ago
In all the fevered debate that has followed the Leveson inquiry, the name ofCarl Bernstein has been invoked several times. The reporting veteran who,with Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward, uncovered the Watergate scandalthat helped bring down US President Richard Nixon, is regularly cited as anexample of the best ...
Sex doesn’t sell
The Economist
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
TIMES are tough for Debbie, a prostitute in western England who runs a private flat with other “mature ladies”. She does two or three jobs a day. A year ago she was doing eight or nine. She has cut her prices: “If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t still be ...
Tiger attack wildlife worker dies
BBC News
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked in an enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria.Cumbria Police said the animal was later securely locked in its enclosure and there had not been any risk to the public. Two men are jailed for life after being found ...
Mayor 'sorry' for US brothel remarks
BBC News
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
The mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka has apologised for suggesting US soldiers should use legal brothels as a way to curb sexual crimes in Okinawa. US personnel have been involved in a number of violent crimes in Okinawa over the years, including rapes. Toru Hashimoto drew ...
Bayern Munich win Champions League
FRANCE 24
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
Arjen Robben scored a heart-stopping 89th-minute winner to earn Bayern Munich a dramatic 2-1 win over German rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday after a thrilling Champions League final at London's Wembley Stadium.With extra time beckoning, Robben collected a back-heel from Franck Ribery, eluded the challenge of Mats Hummels ...
Fifty anthems for the African continent
BBC News
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
To mark the 50th anniversary of the African Union - formerly the Organisation of African Unity, BBC World Service listeners suggested the African songs that summed up the continent to them.From the suggestions, the BBC's DJ Edu, who hosts a weekly African music show on BBC radio, compiled ...
Muslims given a two-child limit in Myanmar's Rakhine state
GlobalPost
2 mentions — 13 hours ago
Rakhine state imposes a two-child limit on the local Rohingya population, claiming the measure will help defuse clashes with local Buddhists. Local authorities in Myanmar's Rakhine state have decided to impose a two-child policy on Muslim residents of the townships of Buthidaung and Maundaw, in a measure they ...
BREAKING NEWS - Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 to win 2013 Champions League
FRANCE 24
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
Bayern Munich won their fifth Champions League title on Saturday with a 2-1 victory over another German team, Borussia Dortmund, at London's Wembley Stadium.