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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 16:17 UTC

Iraq: 36 dead after raid on Sunni protest site

Iraqi security forces backed by helicopters raided a Sunni protest camp before dawn Tuesday, prompting clashes that killed at least 36 people in the area and significantly intensified Sunni anger against the Shiite-led government.

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Seattle Times, 22.04.13 20:18 UTC

US to press China over repatriation of NKoreans

A U.S. envoy says Washington will press China over its forcible repatriation of refugees to North Korea. He likened the North's vast gulag to that operated by the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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Seattle Times, 19.04.13 18:01 UTC

Syria envoy: I'm not resigning

The joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has quashed rumors that he is resigning his post.

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Reuters - Top News, 18.04.13 18:21 UTC

United Nations says Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS | Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:12pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped ...

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Reuters - Top News, 17.04.13 20:47 UTC

Babies as young as six months victims of rape in war: U.N. envoy

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS | Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:33pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In her first seven months as U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a ...

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Reuters - Top News, 16.04.13 21:26 UTC

Congo army battalion accused of mass rape U.S. trained: U.N. envoy

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS | Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:06pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An army battalion in the Democratic Republic of Congo, some of whose members have been accused of mass ...

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Daily Mail, 16.04.13 03:22 UTC

White House snub to Thatcher: Obama won't send envoy to funeral - and leaves it to her old allies from the Reagan era

PUBLISHED: 00:16 GMT, 16 April 2013 | UPDATED: 02:51 GMT, 16 April 2013 Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either ...

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Seattle Times, 13.04.13 15:28 UTC

Uzbek politics freeze amid intrigue over president s health

Rumors of Uzbekistan s president having a heart attack highlight a broader, looming political quandary in former Soviet states from Russia to Tajikistan, where the absence of real elections has meant that succession becomes an unpredictable, hair-raising event.

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Seattle Times, 12.04.13 10:12 UTC

Mongolian general probed for North Korean jet deal

Mongolia's anti-corruption agency is investigating the recently resigned commander of the Mongolian air force for attempting to sell the engines and other parts of old Russian-made jet fighters to North Korea.

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Seattle Times, 10.04.13 09:51 UTC

Sweden sends diplomat to Belarus after teddy stunt

The Swedish Foreign Ministry says it is sending a diplomat to Belarus after its ambassador was expelled last year following a Swedish advertising agency's stunt air-drop of hundreds of teddy bears into the former Soviet state.

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