Human Rights

Miami-Area Resident Pleads Guilty to Participating in $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for his role in two separate fraud schemes that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the...

Somalia: UN official warns famine could spread without adequate relief funding

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Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

Top UN envoy urges restraint after two Palestinians killed in Israeli operation

A senior United Nations envoy today called on Israeli authorities to exercise maximum restraint after two Palestinians were killed during a military operation in a West Bank refugee camp.

COTE D'IVOIRE: Dozo as protector, dozo as assailant

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"The war is over...Dozos target only criminals"

America’s Army Platform Trains Soldiers in Explosive Ordnance Disposal

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Picatinny recently received a patent for the process to train Soldiers to operate robotic vehicles...

SRI LANKA: Senior Tamil journalist brutally attacked by armed men in Jaffna - JDS News

A top editor of the Jaffna-based 'Uthayan' newspaper has been brutally attacked and seriously wounded by unknown armed men on Friday (29) in the heart of the heavily-guarded northern Jaffna town.

SRI LANKA: Over 600 war children still missing

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Kulasekran has been looking for her son for three years

Israel destroys village then sues

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Lebanon: UN tribunal identifies names of four men accused of Hariri murder

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Special Tribunal for Lebanon

UN calls for more funds to save lives across Horn of Africa

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After a 25-day trek from Somalia, a family arrives at Dadaab camp in Kenya and receives a 15-day food ration from...

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