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New UNICEF consignment of essential supplies arrives in war-torn Yemen

A second aircraft loaded with UNICEF lifesaving supplies has arrived at Sana’a International Airport, bringing nearly 76 metric tonnes of antibiotics, bandages, syringes, IV sets and other materials.

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Yarmouk crisis: international community has ‘compelling imperative to act,’ says UN official

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UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl (centre) speaks to the press during a visit to Yarmouk Syria.

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UNESCO condemns destruction at Iraq’s Nimrud site

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A statue of a lamassu, an Assyrian protective deity, at the North West Palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud, Iraq.

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800,000 children forced to flee violence in Nigeria and region – UNICEF

A year on from the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, UNICEF focuses attention on devastating impact of conflict on children

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Evelyn with her 1-year-old daughter Rose in a camp for internally displaced people in north-east Nigeria. Evelyn and her children were forced to flee their homes after Boko Haram attacked their village.

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Human rights, rule of law vital for sustainable development, Ban tells UN Crime Congress

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses 13th United Nations Crime Congress in Doha, Qatar. April 2015.

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Prime Minister of India and UNESCO Director-General: A Shared Vision of Peace and Development

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Fabrice GentileH. E. Mr Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India is welcomed to UNESCO headquarters by Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General (10 April 2015) - He also held a bilateral meeting with the Director-General.

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Bush Family Treason

Lyndon LaRouche describes Jeb Bush’s Presidential candidacy as a deadly, unfolding strategic potential in a world already careening toward financial collapse and world war. A speculative monetarist cancer is destroying the nations of the trans-Atlantic system. Wishing to retain their hegemony, the Anglo-American oligarchy threatens Russia and China with nuclear war. The present ugly caricature of the once great United States can be attributed to George H.W. Bush’s tenure in the Vice Presidency and Presidency, George W. Bush’s eight years in office, and the six-plus years America has suffered under its successor-in-interest, Barack Obama—what LaRouche calls the Bush League of Nazis.

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Xi Jinping’s New Silk Road: Reviving Confucian Culture - Part 2

One of the British tactics to counter the Confucian tradition was the recruitment of a young opium addict named Yen Fu, who was shipped off to London in 1877, where he was indoctrinated in British radical empiricism, which was to be presented to the Chinese as the essence of “Western thought.” He learned nothing of the science of Leibniz and his collaborators in Europe and the United States, nor of the great development projects of the Americans, Germans, and Russians through their cooperation after the American defeat of the British in the American Civil War.

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Xi Jinping’s New Silk Road: Reviving Confucian Culture - Part 1

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Figure 1, Sun Yat-sen’s 1919 proposal for a vast railroad and canal development for China, reaching out into Russia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia;

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World Bank Group, IDB and CAF United to Protect Social Gains in Latin America and the Caribbean

At the 7th Summit of the Americas, International Development Organizations Commit Efforts and Resources to Promote Inclusive Economic Growth

On the eve of the Seventh Summit of the Americas, the main international financial institutions of the region, the World Bank Group (WBG), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America, reiterated their commitment to support countries in the region in their efforts to preserve and expand the economic and social gains of the last decade, at a time when the external factors that contributed to those gains have changed on April 10.