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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Last Generation Network News WORLD EDITION January 7, 2014 –TUESDAY- Shevat 6, 5774 Vol.2 No.2


WORLD EDITION 
"News is the propaganda of the truth" -MJS


 



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British lawmakers visit Iran ahead of talks

Houston Chronicle - ‎2 hours ago‎
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A British Parliament delegation arrived in Tehran on Tuesday on the first visit by U.K. lawmakers to Iran in years, as the two countries work to improve relations and ahead of continued talks on the country's disputed nuclear program.

UPDATE 2-Turkish graft scandal deepens with more arrests, police dismissals

Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
... Print. * Around 350 police officers removed in Ankara. * More arrests in corruption probe in Izmir. * Scandal weakening ruling party ahead of elections (Adds judicial body probe, Fitch, details on police shake-up, raids).

First Batch of Deadly Chemicals Exported From Syria

New York Times - ‎37 minutes ago‎
The first batch of the most dangerous materials in Syria's banned chemical weapons stockpile was exported from the country on Tuesday, loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel in the Syrian port of Latakia in an operation overseen jointly by the United ...

Spanish court subpoenas king's daughter

USA TODAY - ‎10 minutes ago‎
MADRID (AP) - A Spanish court on Tuesday subpoenaed Princess Cristina, the daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos, as a suspect in an investigation of alleged tax fraud and money laundering - the latest blow to the royal family's reputation.

Syria ships out first batch of chemical materials

Mail & Guardian Online - ‎35 minutes ago‎
Syria has started moving chemical weapons materials out of the country as part of the disarmament programme, which has faced technical problems.

'No danger' over Edinburgh Airport alert baggage

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Managers at Edinburgh Airport have said the site has been declared safe after an alert over a passenger's baggage. The terminal building had been evacuated due to concerns about an item found at the airport's security area.

Seven arrested for attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, Hasina vows action

Times of India - ‎58 minutes ago‎
DHAKA: Seven activists of the opposition BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami were arrested for attacks on Bangladesh's minority Hindu community even as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday promised stern action against the perpetrators.

Syrian Qaeda branch urges truce to halt rebel infighting

The Star Online - ‎2 hours ago‎
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The head of an al Qaeda-linked rebel group in Syria called on Tuesday for a ceasefire between opposition factions who have clashed for five days in the bloodiest bout of infighting since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began.

Taliban deny sending girl to attack Afghan police

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban denied Tuesday that they sent a 10-year-old girl to stage a suicide attack against Afghan police after the girl claimed her brother, who was identified as a Taliban commander, had wrapped her in an explosives-packed vest.

Merkel's Ski Tumble Stymies Push to Put Stamp on Third Term (1)

Businessweek - ‎6 hours ago‎
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks with crutches upon arrival to meet with young carol singers at the Chancellery in Berlin. Photographer: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images.

Thailand's anti-corruption commission moves to impeach hundreds of politicians

Sydney Morning Herald - ‎1 hour ago‎
Bangkok: Thailand's anti-corruption commission says it will seek to charge hundreds of ruling party politicians over a failed attempt to amend the constitution, intensifying the country's political crisis ahead of a planned shutdown of Bangkok on Monday.

British expat and Miss Venezuela wife murdered in front of daughter

Daily Mail - ‎52 minutes ago‎
A British man and his beauty queen wife have been murdered in front of their five-year-old daughter after a robbery gone wrong in Venezuela.

Iraqis Flee Fallujah Ahead of Possible Assault

Voice of America - ‎39 minutes ago‎
Families are fleeing the Iraqi city of Fallujah as Iraqi troops mass outside the city, in position for a possible assault on Islamic militants who took control of the city last week.

Prince William goes back to school at Cambridge

CBS News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Prince William, foreground second left, walks with Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, University of Cambridge vice chancellor, right, Polly Coutice, director of the Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership, second right, and Master of St Johns Professor ...

Dieudonne: Hollande backs Nantes and Tours bans

BBC News - ‎5 hours ago‎
Nantes and Tours have become the latest French cities to ban a show by controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala. Dieudonne, who has six convictions for hate speech against Jews, had been due to open his tour in Nantes on Thursday.

Global disasters killed more, cost less in 2013

CBS News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Relatives of the victims of Tyhpoon Haiyan attend an afternoon mass called "Days of Prayer and Remembrance" held at a mass grave in front of the San Joaquin Church in Palo, Leyte on December 8, 2013, commemorating one month after the typhoon.

Feds and Lawyer for Consular Worker Talking Plea, but Still Sparring

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
In the midst of plea negotiations between lawyers for an Indian consular worker and the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, another fight between the parties has erupted, one over whether to push back the deadline by which the government must present ...

Ralph Lauren's Niece Held on 'Air Rage' Charges

ABC News - ‎2 minutes ago‎
The niece of fashion designer Ralph Lauren was arraigned Tuesday on charges of being dangerously drunk, threatening and verbally abusive on a New York-bound plane, forcing it to land in Ireland.

Australia 'turned boat carrying asylum-seekers back to Indonesia' as Tony Abbott ...

Daily Mail - ‎44 minutes ago‎
A boat carrying 47 asylum seekers to from Australia was sent back to Indonesia under the government's strict new crackdown on immigration.

United Nations

Invitations to Syria peace conference being sent out today, UNspokesperson ...

UN News Centre - ‎4 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - Preparations for the long-sought international conference on Syria are moving ahead, with the United Nations reaching out to the more than 30 participating Member States and with a call on the Syrian opposition to name members of its ...

UN rights office condemns deadly shelling of Yemeni funeral procession

UN News Centre - ‎3 hours ago‎
7 January 2014 - The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the killing of more than 20 people, and the wounding of dozens of children and other relatives, during a funeral procession in southern Yemen, and urged authorities to ...

Amid fresh clashes in South Sudan, UN warns its supplies running low in Bor

UN News Centre - ‎22 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - Three helicopters have been deployed to the South Sudanese capital of Juba today to help reinforce United Nations peacekeeping bases in the country, a UN spokesperson confirmed, warning that relief supplies available for the thousands ...

Bangladesh: following violence-marred polls, UN chief urges restraint ...

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, the UN chief expressed sadness at the loss of life and violent incidents that marred the yesterday's parliamentary elections, which were characterized by polarization and low participation.

Cambodia: UN rights office decries use of excessive force against protesters

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
7 January 2014 - The United Nations human rights office today expressed deep concern about what it said is disproportionate use of force by law enforcement officials responding to protesters in Cambodia, and urged authorities and security forces to ...

UN agency praises China's destruction of ivory stockpile

UN News Centre - ‎19 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today applauded China for its first public effort to crackdown on illegal ivory trade, calling the Government's destruction of six tonnes of confiscated ivory a “milestone event ...

UN: Iran not yet invited to Syria peace talks

MiamiHerald.com - ‎22 hours ago‎
UNITED NATIONS -- Iran is not among the "first round" of nations invited to attend Syria peace talks in Switzerland later this month, a U.N. spokesman said. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began sending out invitations Monday. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq ...

UN, partners seek $1 billion to save Syria's children from becoming 'lost...

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
7 January 2014 - The United Nations and its humanitarian partners today appealed for $1 billion to save millions of Syrian children from becoming a “lost generation,” doomed by the civil war in their country to a life of despair, diminished ...

Religious NGOs, Civil Society and the United Nations

Center for Research on Globalization - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
A new study by the University of Kent's Department of Religious Studies in the United Kingdom has revealed that more than 70% of the United Nation's religious non-governmental organisations are Christian. The report, religious NGOs and the United ...

UN peacekeepers in DR Congo on alert after killing of army commander

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 3, 2014‎
3 January 2014 - United Nations peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have stepped up patrols in North Kivu province where citizens are protesting the killing of a high-ranking Congolese military official, a spokesperson ...

UN envoy meets with senior Saudi officials on support for Lebanon

UN News Centre - ‎22 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - The top United Nations official in Lebanon met today with senior leaders from the Government of Saudi Arabia to discuss a host of issues, including support for the Lebanese Armed Forces and the region-wide efforts to cope with the ...

First chemical arms materials leave Syria, joint OPCW-UN mission confirms

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
“A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of Latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today,” OPCW-UN Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag said in a statement from the Joint ...

Insecurity hampers UN aid efforts for 2.2 million in strife-torn Central ...

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
In its latest update today, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) painted a grim picture of the situation in the impoverished country where a year of violence has taken on increasingly religious connotations with Muslim and ...

Thank You to United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon

Huffington Post - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
One of my earliest heroes was Dag Hammerskjold, second secretary-general of the United Nations. The United Nations was formed in 1945; I came along in 1949.

UN peacekeepers reinforcing presence in South Sudan amid continued fighting

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 4, 2014‎
4 January 2014 - The security situation in South Sudan remains “fluid”, the United Nationspeacekeeping mission in the country today said, confirming that it is sending reinforcements to areas affected by the current fighting between pro- and anti ...

Crucial negotiations at the United Nations

Le Monde Diplomatique - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed by the United Nations in 2000 (1) have made an unprecedented contribution to the fight against poverty.

UN To Stop Updating Syria Death Toll

TIME - ‎5 hours ago‎
The United Nations human rights office said Tuesday that it will stop updating its death toll for the civil war in Syria, with information becoming harder to verify after the bloody conflict has dragged on for almost three years.

CAR Refugees Release UN Aid Workers in Cameroon

Voice of America - ‎5 hours ago‎
YAOUNDE - Refugees from the troubled Central African Republic have released two United Nationsworkers in Cameroon - taken hostage to protest a lack of needed aid.

United Nations

Invitations to Syria peace conference being sent out today, UNspokesperson ...

UN News Centre - ‎4 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - Preparations for the long-sought international conference on Syria are moving ahead, with the United Nations reaching out to the more than 30 participating Member States and with a call on the Syrian opposition to name members of its ...

UN rights office condemns deadly shelling of Yemeni funeral procession

UN News Centre - ‎3 hours ago‎
7 January 2014 - The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the killing of more than 20 people, and the wounding of dozens of children and other relatives, during a funeral procession in southern Yemen, and urged authorities to ...

Amid fresh clashes in South Sudan, UN warns its supplies running low in Bor

UN News Centre - ‎22 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - Three helicopters have been deployed to the South Sudanese capital of Juba today to help reinforce United Nations peacekeeping bases in the country, a UN spokesperson confirmed, warning that relief supplies available for the thousands ...

Bangladesh: following violence-marred polls, UN chief urges restraint ...

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, the UN chief expressed sadness at the loss of life and violent incidents that marred the yesterday's parliamentary elections, which were characterized by polarization and low participation.

Cambodia: UN rights office decries use of excessive force against protesters

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
7 January 2014 - The United Nations human rights office today expressed deep concern about what it said is disproportionate use of force by law enforcement officials responding to protesters in Cambodia, and urged authorities and security forces to ...

UN agency praises China's destruction of ivory stockpile

UN News Centre - ‎19 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today applauded China for its first public effort to crackdown on illegal ivory trade, calling the Government's destruction of six tonnes of confiscated ivory a “milestone event ...

UN: Iran not yet invited to Syria peace talks

MiamiHerald.com - ‎22 hours ago‎
UNITED NATIONS -- Iran is not among the "first round" of nations invited to attend Syria peace talks in Switzerland later this month, a U.N. spokesman said. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began sending out invitations Monday. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq ...

UN, partners seek $1 billion to save Syria's children from becoming 'lost...

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
7 January 2014 - The United Nations and its humanitarian partners today appealed for $1 billion to save millions of Syrian children from becoming a “lost generation,” doomed by the civil war in their country to a life of despair, diminished ...

Religious NGOs, Civil Society and the United Nations

Center for Research on Globalization - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
A new study by the University of Kent's Department of Religious Studies in the United Kingdom has revealed that more than 70% of the United Nation's religious non-governmental organisations are Christian. The report, religious NGOs and the United ...

UN peacekeepers in DR Congo on alert after killing of army commander

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 3, 2014‎
3 January 2014 - United Nations peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have stepped up patrols in North Kivu province where citizens are protesting the killing of a high-ranking Congolese military official, a spokesperson ...

UN envoy meets with senior Saudi officials on support for Lebanon

UN News Centre - ‎22 hours ago‎
6 January 2014 - The top United Nations official in Lebanon met today with senior leaders from the Government of Saudi Arabia to discuss a host of issues, including support for the Lebanese Armed Forces and the region-wide efforts to cope with the ...

First chemical arms materials leave Syria, joint OPCW-UN mission confirms

UN News Centre - ‎1 hour ago‎
“A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of Latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today,” OPCW-UN Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag said in a statement from the Joint ...

Insecurity hampers UN aid efforts for 2.2 million in strife-torn Central ...

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
In its latest update today, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) painted a grim picture of the situation in the impoverished country where a year of violence has taken on increasingly religious connotations with Muslim and ...

Thank You to United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon

Huffington Post - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
One of my earliest heroes was Dag Hammerskjold, second secretary-general of the United Nations. The United Nations was formed in 1945; I came along in 1949.

UN peacekeepers reinforcing presence in South Sudan amid continued fighting

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 4, 2014‎
4 January 2014 - The security situation in South Sudan remains “fluid”, the United Nationspeacekeeping mission in the country today said, confirming that it is sending reinforcements to areas affected by the current fighting between pro- and anti ...

Crucial negotiations at the United Nations

Le Monde Diplomatique - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed by the United Nations in 2000 (1) have made an unprecedented contribution to the fight against poverty.

UN To Stop Updating Syria Death Toll

TIME - ‎5 hours ago‎
The United Nations human rights office said Tuesday that it will stop updating its death toll for the civil war in Syria, with information becoming harder to verify after the bloody conflict has dragged on for almost three years.

CAR Refugees Release UN Aid Workers in Cameroon

Voice of America - ‎5 hours ago‎
YAOUNDE - Refugees from the troubled Central African Republic have released two United Nationsworkers in Cameroon - taken hostage to protest a lack of needed aid.

Nepal: Pillay welcomes Supreme Court ruling against amnesty for serious crimes

UN News Centre - ‎Jan 6, 2014‎
6 January 2014 - A senior United Nations official has welcomed a decision by Nepal's top court against granting amnesty for serious human rights violations committed during a decade-long civil war calling it a “significant development for the thousands .


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