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Senior UN official highlights counter-narcotics efforts on visit to Iran
Seized opium
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OSCE media freedom representative calls on governments to recognize access to the Internet as a human right
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, called on governments to treat Internet access as a human right that should be enshrined in their constitutions, in testimony today at the U.S. Helsinki Commission.
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LEBANON: "Acute social marginalization" of Dom community
Children from the Dom community are vulnerable to violence, chronic malnutrition, child marriage, dangerous working conditions and exploitation
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UNICEF CHIEF ARRIVES IN HORN OF AFRICA TO BOOST RESPONSE TO CRISIS
These Somali refugees in northeastern Kenya are among those affected by the crisis
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Real Estate Agent, Loan Officer Among Five Defendants to Plead Guilty to $11 Million Mortgage Fraud
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former real estate agent and a former loan officer are among five co-defendants who have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in an $11 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved upscale homes in Lee’s Summit, Blue Springs, Liberty, Parkville, and elsewhere.
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St. Clair County Man Pleads Guilty to Mailing Series of Hoax Anthrax Letters
BIRMINGHAM—A St. Clair County man pleaded guilty today in federal court to mailing a series of hoax anthrax letters in Alabama in March and April last year, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
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Security Council calls for parties that attack schools and hospitals to be held accountable
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses Security Council meeting on Children and Armed Conflict
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YEMEN: TV appearance sparks fresh wave of violence
President Saleh’s loyalists driving to a rally recently at Sabeen Square in the capital, Sanaa
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MYANMAR: Military porters "worked to death"
A porter with soldiers in Karen State
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Toms River, New Jersey Man Admits Posing as a Doctor, Treating Elderly Patients in Medicare Fraud Scheme
A Toms River, N.J., man today admitted to unlawfully treating patients, prescribing medicine, and ordering procedures while posing as a licensed physician with an Ocean County, N.J., medical practice, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Patrick Lynch, 54, pleaded guilty in connection with the scheme he orchestrated through Toms River-based Visiting Doctors of New Jersey, in which he conducted hundreds of visits with elderly, home-bound patients and billed them to Medicare.
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Building a Peaceful Civilization - Generate Positive Energy by Awakening People’s Conscience
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020