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Searchers for Malaysian Jet Report More Suspected Black Box Signals

Australian and U.S. navy officials said they have detected more acoustic signals that may belong to a black box from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. However, they are stressing that the airliner's location cannot be confirmed until wreckage from...

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UN marks International Day with call for harnessing power of sport to build better world

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UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Maria Sharapova is reaching out to the public in a series of posters to...

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Heeding lessons of Rwanda, world must do more to prevent atrocities – Ban

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with President Paul Kagame in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on 6 April 2014.

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PACE discusses situation in Ukraine, reconsiders Russian credentials

At its spring session in Strasbourg on 7-11 April the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will debate a request to reconsider the already ratified credentials of the delegation of the Russian Federation on substantive grounds (under Rule 9...

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