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<title>Navanethem Pillay to succeed Louise Arbour as UN Human ...</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180286976</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:59 GMT</pubDate>
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... Navanethem Pillay to succeed Louise Arbour as UN Human Rights Commissioner Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has  ...  to appoint Judge Navanethem Pillay of South Africa as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Ms. Pillay  ...
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<title>Top Shark Scientist Wins Award</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180286914</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of marine and coastal science in South Africa, including the Southern Ocean&quot;. The Gilchrist Memorial  ...  in chondrichthyan literature, and some, like the FAO Catalog of World Sharks (1984, 2001 and  ...
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<title>Ghana pledges 200,000 dollars towards Africa capacity building</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180285367</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:57 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  July 2008 Ghana pledges 200,000 dollars towards Africa capacity building Accra, July 25, GNA -  ...  institutions - the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, and the  ...
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<title>South Africa says Zimbabwe talks to get under way</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180283297</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Talks between Zimbabwe&apos;s ruling and opposition  ...  agreed Friday to include representatives of the United Nations and the African Union. Mbeki has long  ...
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<title>Sudan: Security Council Should Make President Meet Benchmarks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180276810</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:38 GMT</pubDate>
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... The United Nations Security Council is no stranger to intractable  ...  its call has been echoed by the African Union (AU) and the Arab League. What  ...  their participation to include representatives of the UN peacekeeping mission, UNAMID, the AU/UN Special Representative  ...
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<title>Stymied in UN, Bush widens Zimbabwe sanctions</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180276735</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of Sudan staged a public relations campaign. Egypt is relying on an ambitious agricultural project  ...  pocket-sized video camera... The U.S. military has begun withdrawing the last of the extra brigades  ...  been abandoned by their country. The South African president continues to support his long-time associate,  ...
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<title>U.S. expands sanctions against Mugabe&apos;s government</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180275410</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  condemned around the world. Mugabe&apos;s party has begun talks with Morgan Tsvangirai&apos;s MDC on sharing  ...  to get such measures adopted by the United Nations. African states generally oppose sanctions, but South African  ...
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<title>U.S. Imposes Tougher Sanctions On Mugabe</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180273824</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  condemned around the world. Mugabe&apos;s party has begun talks with Morgan Tsvangirai&apos;s MDC on sharing  ...  to get such measures adopted by the United Nations. African states generally opposes sanctions, but South African  ...
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<title>MARKET WATCH: Natural gas price falls, oil price rallies</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180273823</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  indicated it will no longer cooperate with United Nations experts in a year-long search for clandestine  ...  build military bases in his country. In Nigeria, gunmen in speedboats kidnapped two oil engineers  ...
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<title>Sudan peacekeeper threat over Beshir charges</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180273771</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  committed to our international obligations, particularly the UN Security Council resolution 1769. We will continue  ...  We will continue to co-operate with the African Union and the United Nations to make the hybrid operation a success,&quot;  ...
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<title>Somali opposition says could fight UN</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180273371</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it would consider deploying peacekeepers to replace African Union troops if political reconciliation and security  ...  in 2004 with the help of the United Nations but has failed to protect citizens from  ...
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<title>Bush widens sanctions on Zimbabwe</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180272666</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 23:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  regimes continued politically motivated violence and the African leaders decision to disregard calls from the  ...  Development Community, the African Union and the United Nations to halt the attacks. The Treasury Department  ...
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<title>Sudan: Security Council Should Make President Meet Benchmarks guest column</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180263806</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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... The United Nations Security Council is no stranger to intractable  ...  its call has been echoed by the African Union (AU) and the Arab League. What  ...  their participation to include representatives of the UN peacekeeping mission, UNAMID, the AU/UN Special Representative  ...
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<title>Durban&apos;s descendants</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180263404</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a U.N. anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa. But while the Jewish state may have  ...  ever produced under the umbrella of the United Nations. Despite its revised guidelines, Ford appears unable  ...  conference in Italy after The New York Sun revealed that some one-third of expected participants  ...
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<title>Linking to South Africa</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180263403</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the former apartheid state of South Africa can be traced to the late 1960s,  ...  racism&quot; resolution. At the same time, the United Nations and other world bodies denounced apartheid as  ...
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