Posts Tagged ‘peace’

S Korea urges North on ‘new path’

Monday, May 21st, 2012

South Korea urges North Korea to follow a ‘different path to peace’ at the start of talks with the US and Japan, amid fears of a third nuclear test.

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‘U.S. Department of Peace’ may never get its chance

Friday, May 18th, 2012

It is the Hope Diamond of liberal ideas: pure, breathtaking and highly impractical in the real world. The proposal has been submitted for consideration in every Congress since 2001, and the idea behind it is that the federal government could stop wars, pacify street gangs and distill violence out of the American soul itself. All it would take was a new Cabinet-level department and $10 billion a year in taxpayer money. Read full article > >

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Al Gore has a girlfriend: California donor and activist Elizabeth Keadle

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

It’s never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away — probably especially so if you’re one of the most famous men in the world. But things seem to have worked out for Al Gore . The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former VP has a serious girlfriend, we’ve learned. Read full article > >

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8 NATO deaths in Afghanistan in 3 days

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

A key figure in Afghanistan's efforts to bring the Taliban to peace negotiations was assassinated Sunday in Kabul, authorities said.

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Fuel tanker driver strike averted

Friday, May 11th, 2012

A strike by fuel tanker drivers is averted after drivers vote to accept a peace deal, the Unite union announces.

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Haiti rape case in Uruguay court

Friday, May 11th, 2012

A Haitian man who says he was raped by five Uruguayan peacekeepers in Haiti appears before a Uruguayan judge investigating the case.

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‘Last chance’ to avoid Syria war

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Kofi Annan tells the UN Security Council that his peace plan could be the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria.

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Peace plan for Syria ‘on track’

Friday, May 4th, 2012

The peace plan for Syria negotiated by UN envoy Kofi Annan is “on track”, despite widespread reports of ceasefire violations, his spokesman says.

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Sometimes the death penalty is warranted

Monday, April 30th, 2012

If anyone personifies evil, it is Anders Breivik . The 33-year-old Norwegian violently disrupted his country’s usual peace on July 22, 2011, by gunning down 69 mostly young people at a summer camp . A bomb he planted in Oslo killed eight others. He did it all to defend Norway against multiculturalism, he later raved. Read full article > >

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Syria: Ban Ki-Moon Is ‘Biased’

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Says West is sabotaging U.N. peace plan.

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Syria: Ban Ki-Moon Is ‘Biased’

“Derby Day” by D.J. Taylor

Friday, April 27th, 2012

D.J. Taylor , a British writer of formidable accomplishments — several well-received novels, as well as biographies of William Makepeace Thackeray and George Orwell — but little known in this country, has pulled off an impressive and wholly engaging feat in “ Derby Day .” Set in London and environs during a few weeks in the reign of Queen Victoria, it is not merely a work of historical fiction but one written in a language appropriate to its time — i.e., it is a Victorian novel, the prose of which brings to mind Thackeray (of course) and Dickens, yet never smacks of cuteness or contrivance. It is delicious fun and can be read purely as such, yet it is also a serious novel about a society caught between the familiar and the new, in which “the world is changing” and leaving many people behind. Read full article > >

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Protests Expected Across Syria

Friday, April 27th, 2012

U.N.-backed peace plan not working.

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Tow Truck Dodges L.A. Police

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Comically slow chase ends peacefully.

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Tow Truck Dodges L.A. Police

Laker Star Suspended Seven Games

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

NBA’s Metta World Peace charged with flagrant foul.

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Gorbachev and Other Nobel Laureates Visit Chicago Schools

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

In Chicago for a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other historic figures dropped in on more than a dozen public schools throughout the city.

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