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Obama Calls on Congress to Act on Gun Control
Acting less than a week after the massacre of 26 people, including 20 young children and six adults, in a school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama has ordered creation of a government-wide task force to come up with solutions to gun violence.
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DR Congo: initial findings by UN confirm human rights violations amid recent violence
Women wait for food to be distributed at the Mugunga III camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Russia Sends Naval Ships to Mediterranean, Eyes Syria Evacuation
Russia has sent warships to the Mediterranean after some of its senior diplomats said last week that Moscow may call for the evacuation of Russian citizens in Syria if the government in Damascus falls.
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Reconciliation key to breaking ‘cycle of enmity’, OSCE Secretary General tells meeting participants
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, speaking at an OSCE event on reconciliation after conflict, Vienna, 18 December 2012.
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29th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
OSCE Chairperson-in Office's Special Representative for the South Caucasus Ambassador Pádraig Murphy (c) flanked by Andrii Deshchytsia, Special Representative of the incoming Ukrainian Chairmanship of the OSCE (l), and the Head of the EUMM, Ambassador Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, Ergneti, 18 December 2012.
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Situation in Kivu provinces of eastern DR Congo remains ‘tense and fragile’ – UN spokesperson
Armed group of M23 make their withdrawal from the city of Goma, DRC.
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Japan's Governing Party Resoundingly Ousted in Shift to Right
Japan's governing party has suffered a crushing election defeat. Results of parliamentary elections Sunday show the next government will be formed by the Liberal Democratic Party. The conservatives and their allies are expected to take a more hawkish approach in confronting the country's neighbors, but what they plan to do to reverse Japan's long economic decline remains murky.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020