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Why can't we share?
As the season of gift gluttony, parking lot insanity and checkout line lunacy fades to a distant memory, it's worth contemplating a nagging and perennial question: Why are we so bad at sharing? We fret and fuss at our kids for fighting over the new...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Kansas State University , Entertainment, Xbox 360
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Russian ban on U.S. adoptions meant to cast Americans as abusers
Anyone unfamiliar with the hyperbole of post-Cold War politics might be perplexed by Moscow’s move to outlaw American adoption of Russian orphans. More than 60,000 Russian children once condemned to a hellish institutional life have been brought...
Tags: Politics, Nelson Mandela, National Government, Adoption, Political Corruption
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L.A. County Holiday Celebration surveys local music and dance
The 53rd L.A. County Holiday Celebration, which played out Monday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, will be rebroadcast Christmas Day at noon and 3 p.m. for anyone who missed the live telecast on KCET Channel 28. The three-hour program surveys the...
Tags: Judy Collins, Arts and Culture, Music, Jose Hernandez, Christmas
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North Korea's rocket expenditures could have helped the hungry
Impoverished and isolated North Korea has long invested heavily in its defense programs, even as its people suffer hunger and deprivation. North Korea's rocket launch Wednesday cost about $480 million, South Korean officials estimated before the launch....Tags: North Korea
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U.S. diplomats evacuate Central African Republic as rebels advance
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — U.S. diplomats evacuated from the capital of the Central African Republic on Friday, the State Department reported, after a coalition of rebel groups swept across the country in recent days, seizing towns and diamond...
Tags: Joseph Kony, Congo, France, Africa, Central African Republic
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'Dire' conditions for displaced in western Myanmar, U.N. warns
In Myanmar, thousands of people ejected from their homes as violence flared this year between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims are living in “dire” conditions without jobs, schooling or the freedom to leave, the United Nations...Tags: Burma, Labor Legislation, United Nations, Barack Obama, Immigration
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U.N. seeks $1.5 billion to help Syria residents and refugees
The United Nations and its partners are seeking donations of more than $1.5 billion to aid Syrians inside and outside the battered country over the next six months as the chill of winter descends, the biggest appeal it has ever launched for such a crisis....Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Refugee, United Nations, Personal Weapon Control
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U.N.: Over 435,000 displaced, children forced to fight in Mali
World NowMali crisis: As Mali remains wracked by infighting and has failed to reverse a takeover of the north, the number of people pushed out of their homes has soared and more children are being recruited as fighters, United Nations agencies warn.... -
North Korea is willing to accept aid from South Korea, officials say
World NowNorth Korea is willing to accept aid from South Korea after devastating floods left scores dead and tens of thousands homeless, South Korean officials said Monday. But exactly what the country will get and how has yet to be decided. If the two countries... -
Somali lawmakers elect academic and civic activist as president
World NowLawmakers overwhelmingly elected an academic and civic activist as president of Somalia on Monday, in a United Nations-backed effort to put the country's lawless past behind it and forge the first stable central government in more than two decades.... -
Somalia's presidential newcomer faces tough job
World NowSomalia's presidential newcomer faces a mammoth job: While international leaders on Tuesday urged Somalia’s new president to move swiftly to establish an inclusive government in order to rebuild his ruined nation, the Islamic militia that controls... -
As Malala recovers, U.N. marks International Day of the Girl Child
World NowAs Malala Yousafzai lay in a Pakistani hospital recovering from gunshot wounds, the United Nations on Thursday marked its first International Day of the Girl Child....
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