| August 26, 2008 | - A United Nations investigation of last week's coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan found that the United States had killed 90 civilians, including 60 sleeping children.
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New York Times
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| August 2, 2008 | - The United Nations agreed to oversee India's civilian nuclear facilities, a key step toward a U.S.-India nuclear pact desired by the Bush Administration.
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LAT
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| July 4, 2008 | - The United Nations brought female excrement carriers from India to New York City to appear on the catwalk alongside top models at a fashion show, crowning one woman the princess of sanitation workers. “This is the dream coming true of Indian independence hero Gandhi-ji,” said an organizer.
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BBCnews.com
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| June 4, 2008 | - The United Nations held a three-day emergency food summit; the director of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization condemned U.S. subsidies for biofuel, saying that they deprived people of food in order to “satisfy a thirst for fuel for vehicles.”
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Guardian
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Washington Post
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| May 30, 2008 | - At a literary festival in Wales, British columnist George Monbiot attempted a citizen's arrest of John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on charges of war crimes, but was obstructed by security guards.
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Democracy Now
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| May 23, 2008 | - The United Nations, responding to food riots in 30 countries, said that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was expected to rise 100 million to 950 million. Japan released 20,000 tons of its 1.5-million-ton rice stockpile for sale to Africa.
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Star
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AFP
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| May 18, 2008 | - A three-day period of mourning was also declared for 130,000 dead or missing victims of the cyclone in Myanmar, where the country's military junta, under protest by the United Nations, continued to turn away much foreign aid.
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The New York Times
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| May 5, 2008 | - U.S. military reports on the interrogation of four captured Shia militia members concluded that Hezbollah was training small groups of Iraqi insurgents in Iran. John Bolton, ex-ambassador to the United Nations, said that attacking Iran was “really the most prudent thing to do”; the Iraqi government said that it would conduct its own inquiry. “We do not want to start a conflict with Iran,” said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. “We need our own government documentation of this interference, not from the Americans, not from the media.”
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The New York Times
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Reuters
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The Christian Science Monitor
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Fox via Thinkprogress
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| April 5, 2008 | - The United Nations found that women make up 70 percent of the world's poor, own only 1 percent of the world's titled land, and are discriminated against in almost every country.
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BBCnews.com
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| March 16, 2008 | - The United Nations Environment Program released data showing that the rate at which the world's glaciers are melting has doubled in the past seven years. “There are many canaries emerging in the climate change coal mine,” said a UNEP spokesman. “The glaciers are perhaps among those making the most noise and it is absolutely essential that everyone sits up and takes notice.”
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BBC
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| November 20, 2007 | - UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that fights AIDS, lowered its estimate of the number of people infected with the disease worldwide, from 39.5 million to 33.2 million.
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New York Times
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| September 28, 2007 | - President George W. Bush skipped all events related to the U.N. discussions on global warming, except for dinner, because he was holding his own summit later in the week; reporters covering the Bush conference received a pocket-sized handout aimed at dispelling “myths” about the administration's environmental policy, including the myths that Bush refuses to admit that humans are a factor in climate change, or that climate change is real.
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New York Times
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Associated Press
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| September 26, 2007 | -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hailed by his countrymen as the “Socrates of the Third Millennium” for “disarming other speakers through his sharp reasoning,” gave a speech on Monday in which he claimed that Iran had no homosexuals and disavowed reports of his nuclear ambitions. “Let me tell a joke here,” Ahmadinejad said. “I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, or testing them, making them, politically they are backward, retarded.” On Tuesday he met with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, addressed the United Nations (where he announced that he would disregard any resolutions adopted by the Security Council), and hosted a reception at the Intercontinental Hotel that was attended by Brian Williams and Christiane Amanpour.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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Adnkronos International
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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New York Times
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Time
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| September 26, 2007 | - The annotated text of Bush's address to the U.N. General Assembly appeared briefly on the U.N. website. The speech included phonetic spellings for the name of French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan), Mauritania (moor-EH-tain-ee-a), and the Zimbabwe capital Harare (hah-RAR-ray).
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 23, 2007 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the United Nations in New York City and gave a speech at Columbia University. “There is,” he said in an interview, “no war in the offing.”
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Herald Sun
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| September 7, 2007 | - “Bio-warfare” chemicals found at a United Nations office in New York turned out to be cleaning supplies.
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BBC
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| August 30, 2007 | - An envoy for the UN Human Rights Council announced that acts of sexual violence by armed groups in Congo “are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape” and that victims who survive being shot or stabbed in the genitals are often forced to eat excrement or the flesh of their murdered relatives with whom they have also been forced to have sex.
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Al Jazeera
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| May 2, 2007 | - The U.N. Refugee Agency reported that more than 36,000 Afghans had been deported from Iran since late April.
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BBCnews.com
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| April 19, 2007 | - A senior U.N. inspector revealed that in the past two months Iran has doubled its capacity to enrich uranium.
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Washington Post
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| April 17, 2007 | -
Sudan agreed to allow more than 3,000 armed U.N. and African peacekeepers into Darfur, where government-supported militia are accused of killing as many as 400,000 civilians.
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Washington Post
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| March 23, 2007 | - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose new sanctions on Iran. Iranian officials claimed that American authorities had prevented President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from attending the Council meeting by delaying his visa.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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BBC
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| March 22, 2007 | - In the Green Zone, a press conference held by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was interrupted by a nearby rocket attack. Ban, frightened, ducked behind a podium.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| March 22, 2007 | - John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, discussing last summer's conflict in Lebanon, said that he was “damned proud” of U.S. efforts to delay a cease-fire.
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BBC
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| March 10, 2007 | - The United Nations reported that 2 million Iraqis, including the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, have fled their country since the war began; according to the State Department, the United States has accepted 500 of those refugees.
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CNN.com
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Al Jazeera
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CNN.com
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| March 6, 2007 | - The United Nations announced that Afghanistan's yield of heroin poppies rose 25 percent last year.
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BBCnews.com
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| February 19, 2007 | - A United Nations expert panel announced a 50 percent likelihood that widespread ice sheet loss was inevitable and could elevate sea levels by up to 19 feet in the next several hundred years.
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Guardian
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| February 14, 2007 | - After studying 21 industrialized nations, the U.N. concluded that Dutch children were the most happy, and British and American children the least.
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BBC
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| January 16, 2007 | - The United Nations announced that 34,452 civilians were killed in Iraq last year, a number nearly three times higher than previous estimates by the Iraqi interior ministry.
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BBC
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| December 8, 2006 | - President George W. Bush blamed John Bolton's departure from the U.N. on the “shallow politics” of the Senate, and Kofi Annan, who will leave the U.N. on December 31 after completing his second five-year term as secretary general, said that he and Bolton were “both graduating together.”
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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| November 12, 2006 | -
Democratic
senators made it clear that they would not confirm John Bolton (who was installed as U.N. ambassador via recess appointment) to his position in 2007.
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ABC News
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| November 11, 2006 | - In Beit Hanun, Gaza, Israeli forces accidentally killed 18 civilians, including seven children; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described the killings as a “technical failure.” The U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution condemning the attack, but the United States, represented by Ambassador John Bolton, vetoed it.
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The Jerusalem Post
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BBC News
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| October 24, 2006 | - A United Nations official claimed that the United States has become a role model for prisoner-abusing governments around the world.
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Washington Post
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| October 16, 2006 | -
China insisted that the U.N. request, rather than require, countries to inspect North Korean cargo. An American expert called the sanctions “kabuki theater,” and North Korea called them a “declaration of war.”
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