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- Security Council OKs Mideast peace deal
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  The resolution, adopted unanimously, authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israeli forces that have occupied the area withdraw. The Security Council resolution leaves out several key demands from both Israel and Lebanon in efforts to come up with a workable arrangement.
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- U.S., France OK U.N. Mideast Truce Pact
  Posted by Billbar from Forbes
  Well, it's great that we and the French can agree, but how about the warring factions?
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- Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield'
  Posted by Billbar from Canada
  The words of a Canadian United Nations observer written just days before he was killed in an Israeli bombing of a UN post in Lebanon are evidence Hezbollah was using the post as a "shield" to fire rockets into Israel, says a former UN commander in Bosnia. Those words, written in an e-mail dated just nine days ago, offer a possible explanation as to why the post -- which according to UN officials was clearly marked and known to Israeli forces -- was hit by Israel on Tuesday night, said retired Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie yesterday.
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- Praise at Home for Envoy, but Scorn at U.N.
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  “My initial feeling was, let’s see if we can work with him, and I have done some things to push for consensus on issues that were not easy for my country,” said an ambassador with close ties to the Bush administration. “But all he gives us in return is, ‘It doesn’t matter, whatever you do is insufficient,’ ” he said. “He’s lost me as an ally now, and that’s what many other ambassadors who consider themselves friends of the U.S. are saying.”
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- Praise at Home for Bolton, but Scorn at U.N.
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  The Bush administration is not popular at the United Nations, where it is often perceived as disdainful of diplomacy, and its policies as heedless of the effects on others and single-minded in the willful assertion of American interests. By extension, then, many diplomats say they see Mr. Bolton as a stand-in for the arrogance of the administration itself.
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- North Korea rejects UN resolution; says missile tests to continue
  Posted by Billbar from Canada
  North Korea said Saturday it "totally rejects" a UN resolution imposing sanctions for its recent missile tests and insisted it will continue the launches to bolster its self-defence.
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- Cannabis is no soft drug, UN warns
  Posted by Billbar from Smh.com
  New strains of highly potent cannabis are as dangerous as heroin and cocaine, and the drug can no longer be dismissed as "soft and relatively harmless", the United Nations has reported. In an implied criticism of Britain's decision to downgrade cannabis, Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime, said that countries got the "drug problem they deserved" if they maintained inadequate policies.
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UN body says Iran fails to meet nuclear deadline
Will the sh*t hit the fan over this?
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9:44 am 8/31/06

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