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Inaugural cast: Aretha, Yo-Yo and more
The Swampby Frank James The congressional committee handling the arrangements for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has released the program for the event which will include famous entertainers like Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman and a...Tags: Glenn Gould, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Pelosi, John F. Williams, John Boehner
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U.N. Peacekeepers Wrestle With Limitations
There is no "big idea" easier to pay homage to in principle, or harder to make work in practice, than the peacekeeping role of the United Nations. This is painfully clear in a new memoir by Kofi Annan, its former secretary-general. The latest failure...Tags: Bashar Assad, Politics, Iran's Nuclear Program, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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McManus: A ticking clock on Syria
The interventionist liberals of the Obama administration were a doleful bunch last week. It was the 20th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, when a Bosnian Serb army battered a city full of civilians with artillery while the United States issued...Tags: Bashar Assad, Syria, Hillary Clinton, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Department of State
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U.N. names veteran envoy to 'impossible mission' in Syria
World NowThe United Nations named veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi to the daunting task of trying to bring peace to war-torn Syria, with the French chairman of the Security Council conceding that the envoy was being sent on an "impossible mission."... -
U.N. envoy presses for cease-fire in Syria
World NowLakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy to Syria, continued to push for a four-day cease-fire in the fighting.... -
Syrian government agrees to temporary cease-fire
World NowResponding to international peace efforts, Syria said Thursday its forces would observe a cease-fire from Friday to Monday, the period of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.... -
Syria clashes persist despite holiday truce
World NowBEIRUT -– Despite the beginning of a cease-fire Friday in observance of the Eid Al-Adha holiday, there have been reports of clashes in northern Syria and shelling in various parts of the country. Three people were killed in the Damascus suburb of... -
Syrian regime, rebels agree to cease-fire for holiday, envoy says
World NowThe government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to a cease-fire for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said.... -
Syria peace envoy Brahimi to Assad: Time for change, not reform
World NowLakhdar Brahimi, the new international envoy responsible for seeking peace in war-ravaged Syria, said he had given President Bashar Assad a pointed message: Reform alone won't resolve the crisis.... -
Kofi Annan flies to Iran to seek help on Syrian peace plan
World NowKofi Annan arrived in Tehran on Monday after having what he termed “a very candid and constructive discussion” with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus during the U.N. special envoy's latest bid to salvage his faltering six-point peace... -
Syrian forces carried out war crimes, U.N. panel finds
World NowSyrian government forces and allied militias have waged a brutal campaign of murder, torture, rape and blanket attacks on Syrian civilians amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, a United Nations expert panel said.... -
Annan singles out Syrian government after Treimseh killings
World NowA day after opposition activists reported mass killings in the village of Treimseh, United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan condemned government troops for using heavy weaponry in the town, in blatant violation of the peace plan he brokered months ago....
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