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Model students United
Thirty-five youth delegates representing the Crescenta-Cańada YMCA attended the California State Model United Nations Summit at the Burbank Marriott on the first weekend of May. More than 600 middle school students traveled to the summit to...Tags: Social Issues, Lifestyle and Leisure, United Nations, International Law, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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New videos from Syria spotlight conflict's brutality
New video surfaced on the Internet on Thursday purporting to show Syrian rebel fighters killing 11 prisoners they accused of taking part in massacres by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. It was the latest of many grisly videos that have...Tags: Science and Technology, Computer Networking and Internet, Research, Human Rights, Massacres
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International court to explore investigating Israeli flotilla raid
JERUSALEM -- The International Criminal Court will hold a preliminary inquiry to decide whether a full investigation into Israel's deadly 2010 raid on a Turkish ship will be opened, according to a court statement Tuesday. In May 2010, Israeli naval...
Tags: Government, National Government, Human Rights, Japan, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Human Rights Watch alleges rebel atrocities in Syria
BEIRUT -- Gruesome video footage purportedly showing a Syrian rebel commander mutilating the corpse of a dead soldier while shouting sectarian insults has drawn condemnation from Human Rights Watch and focused renewed attention on battlefield atrocities...Tags: Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Islam, Bashar Assad, International Law
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Letters: Caution on Syria
Re "Time to act in Syria," Opinion, May 9 Chuck Freilich speaks of the terrible consequences of not dealing with the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. He focuses only on Bashar Assad's regime as the likely perpetrator. A prominent...
Tags: International Law, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, United Nations
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U.N. commissioner warns of possible atrocities in Qusair, Syria
The United Nations commissioner for human rights on Friday warned of possible atrocities in the Syrian town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border, as reports emerged of a major military buildup. Commissioner Navi Pillay said Syrian government forces and...
Tags: International Law, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Government, National Government, Human Rights
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide
MEXICO CITY — Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan military dictator who ruled his country during one of the bloodiest phases of its civil war, was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity Friday for the systematic massacre of more...Tags: Lawyers, Mexico City, Human Rights, Guatemala, Genocide
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Former Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt denies ordering slaughter
MEXICO CITY -- The former dictator of Guatemala, Efrain Rios Montt, on Thursday took the stand for the first time in his genocide trial and said he did not order the slaughter of hundreds of indigenous Maya. Rios Montt’s sometimes contentious...
Tags: Government, Human Rights, Guatemala, Massacres, Genocide
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Rep. Lamar Smith defends tentative changes to research funding
Republicans in Congress, long skeptical of the value of some taxpayer-supported research, have taken aim at the National Science Foundation with a bill that seeks to limit the scope of its grants. A draft bill by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar...
Tags: Media Industry, Research, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress, Tom Coburn
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Guatemala high court apparently restarts ex-dictator's trial
MEXICO CITY -- Guatemala’s highest court issued a ruling late Thursday that appears to have broken the complicated legal logjam in the case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who is facing genocide charges in the slaughter of ethnic Maya during...
Tags: Guatemala, Human Rights, Genocide, Massacres, Judges
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Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...
Tags: Tunisia, Government, U.S. Congress, National Government, Human Rights
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Coup thwarts search for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Uganda's military has suspended its hunt for notorious warlord Joseph Kony after rebels toppled the president of the Central African Republic last month. Kony, indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of...
Tags: Rebellions, Armed Forces, Uganda, Jacob Zuma, United Nations
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