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UN marks Human Rights Day by promoting violation of human rights
Sixty-six years ago was the high water mark of global disapproval of xenophobia, and racial and religious discrimination. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then gave Eleanor Roosevelt a…
Border Patrol’s hiring blitz not enough to counter hands-off policies, say critics
Jan. 11, 2012: A Border Patrol agent works in front of a color-coded chart at a detention center in Imperial Beach, Calif. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are seeking to hire roughly 1,600 agents in 2015. (AP/Gregory Bull)
U.S.…
At UN Netanyahu challenges ‘brazen lies’ told by Obama, Abbas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose not to let President Obama’s bold allegation that Israelis were not interested in peace go unanswered in his speech Monday at the UN. “Brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country” is…
Ukraine president: no military solution to conflict with Russia
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday that there was no military solution to his country’s conflict with Russia and that Ukraine needed European economic and political support to help avoid an escalation.
The Ukrainian president, who struck a cease-fire with…
Lesson for lawmakers in Landrieu, Roberts’ residency woes: Get back home early, often
Every election cycle, some candidate or elected official gets hammered for not really living in their district. The persons getting this treatment this time around are senior senators Mary Landrieu, who represents Louisiana, and Pat Roberts who represents Kansas.
Both…
UN Security Council calls for cease-fire in Libya
The U.N. Security Council called for a cease-fire in Libya on Wednesday, three years after the overthrow of the Muammar Qaddafi regime plunged the country into sectarian war.
The resolution also called for the strengthening of the arms embargo on…