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In this segment, Chuck Missler reads a tribute to Jesus Christ, inspired by Pastor S.D. Lockridge.
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05 February 2012, 05:45:12 PM
Reuters - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
05 February 2012, 05:16:46 PM
Reuters - Russia and China's veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria was a travesty, the United States said on Saturday, saying it would work with other nations to support democratic change in the Arab nation.
05 February 2012, 05:16:01 PM
 AP - A U.N. human rights envoy said Sunday that Myanmar is considering letting foreign observers monitor April elections that are viewed as crucial for gauging the nation's much-heralded democratic reforms.
05 February 2012, 04:25:49 PM
 AP - The commander of rebel Syrian soldiers said Sunday there is no choice but to use military force to drive President Bashar Assad's regime from power as fears mounted that government troops will escalate their deadly crackdown on dissent after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution aimed at resolving the crisis.
05 February 2012, 02:19:17 PM
 AP - Arab and Turkish officials slammed talk of a military strike against Iran, saying Sunday it would be a disaster for the region and calling for renewed negotiations, while also urging the international community to keep pressure on Syria to end the bloodshed there.
04 February 2012, 11:56:21 PM
 AP - The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step down. The double-veto outraged the U.S. and European council members who feared it would embolden the Assad regime.
04 February 2012, 11:36:16 PM
Reuters - Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his bloody crackdown on unrest after hundreds were reported killed in the city of Homs.
04 February 2012, 11:22:17 PM
AP - Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed, despite international outrage Saturday over a devastating bombardment of the city of Homs by President Bashar Assad's forces. Activists said more than 200 were killed in the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month uprising.
04 February 2012, 08:09:02 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Saturday that the risk of more bloodshed and civil war in Syria had increased after her attempt to get Russia to back a U.N. Security Council vote condemning President Bashar al-Assad had failed.
04 February 2012, 08:03:50 PM
AP - Text of the proposed U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed Saturday by Russia and China:
04 February 2012, 07:38:55 PM
 AP - President Barack Obama's call on Saturday for the U.N. Security Council to stand up against the Syrian regime's "relentless brutality" was rebuffed by Russia and China when both vetoed a resolution calling for President Bashar Assad to leave power.
04 February 2012, 06:59:41 PM
AP - Russia, China veto UN resolution backing Arab plan calling on Syrian president to step down
04 February 2012, 06:48:58 PM
Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the U.N. Security Council to take a stand against what he called the "relentless brutality" of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
04 February 2012, 06:02:56 PM
 AP - Moscow still sees two problems of "crucial importance" with a draft U.N. resolution on the violence in Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Saturday amid Western attempts to head off a Russian veto in the Security Council.
04 February 2012, 05:53:34 PM
Reuters - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Saturday that proposed Russian amendments to a draft Security Council resolution endorsing an Arab League plan for Syria could not be accepted.
04 February 2012, 04:11:44 PM
Reuters - France raised the pressure on Russia on Saturday by warning that countries that blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria after activists said more than 200 people were killed in Homs would bear a "heavy responsibility in history."
04 February 2012, 01:46:38 PM
 AP - Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.
04 February 2012, 12:29:45 PM
Reuters - Russia sought to delay a U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, warning on Saturday of a "scandal" if the current draft was put to council members, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
04 February 2012, 10:13:10 AM
Reuters - More than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011, the fifth year in a row the number has risen, the United Nations said on Saturday in a report likely to revive tension between the Afghan government and its Western backers.
04 February 2012, 02:05:40 AM
The Christian Science Monitor - United Nations Security Council members contemplated a watered-down resolution on Syria Friday, with Russia balking at any wording that could be construed as support for “regime change†targeting President Bashar al-Assad.
04 February 2012, 01:43:52 AM
Reuters - A shoot-out among South Sudanese security forces using truck-mounted machineguns killed 37 people and injured a United Nations policeman Wednesday, U.N. and government officials said Friday.
04 February 2012, 01:33:43 AM
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council will meet on Saturday to vote on a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power, council members announced.
04 February 2012, 12:59:11 AM
AP - The U.N. Security Council will meet Saturday morning to take up a much-negotiated resolution on Syria, said a diplomat for a Western nation that sits on the council.
03 February 2012, 10:55:31 PM
AP - The Obama administration pressed Russia on Friday to back a softened version of a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the violence in Syria, though it was unclear if the compromise wording would compel President Bashar Assad to step down as Washington wants.
03 February 2012, 09:26:37 PM
Reuters - Syrian forces shot dead one person in the city of Hama on Friday as they broke up a protest marking the anniversary of a 1982 massacre by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's father, activists said.
03 February 2012, 08:01:00 PM
The Christian Science Monitor - Somalia’s seven-month-long famine – which killed tens of thousands and forced nearly 4 million people dependent on food aid for survival – has finally come to an end, according to the United Nations.
03 February 2012, 07:10:36 PM
AP - A U.N. staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, U.N. officials said Friday.
03 February 2012, 06:44:37 PM
 AP - The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
03 February 2012, 05:23:38 PM
 AP - The U.N.'s highest court confirmed Friday that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of World War II Nazi atrocities.
03 February 2012, 01:59:33 AM
 Reuters - Russia shot down suggestions from some U.N. Security Council members of an imminent deal on a draft resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval, warning it would veto the text if it were put to a vote Friday.
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27 January 2012, 05:41:32 AM
AP - A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center, a New York Police Department spokesman said Thursday.
29 January 2012, 09:24:47 PM | -NO AUTHOR-
(DAILYMAIL) — The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
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28 January 2012, 05:52:04 PM
AP - African leaders have inaugurated a new
$200
million headquarters that was funded by
China
as a gift. They say the massive complex is a symbol of China's rapidly changing role in Africa.
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04 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
voiced deep regret after
Security Council members were
today unable to agree on a
resolution backing an Arab
League plan to resolve the
crisis in Syria, where thousands
of people have been killed over
the past year since authorities
crackdown on a pro-democracy
uprising.
04 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The number of civilian
casualties resulting from the
conflict in Afghanistan has
risen for a fifth consecutive
year, the United Nations
reported today, blaming a change
in tactics by the Taliban and
other anti-Government forces for
the higher death toll.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Early diagnosis is the key to
reducing the nearly eight
million deaths caused by cancer
across the globe annually, the
United Nations World Health
Organization (WHO) said today,
stressing the importance of
screening programmes for healthy
people to detect the disease
promptly for easier treatment.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
ruled today that Italy has
violated its obligation to
respect Germany’s immunity under
international law by allowing
civil claims seeking reparations
for Nazi war crimes to be
brought against it in Italian
courts.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The head of the United
Nations peacekeeping mission in
Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) said today
that he hopes to decide next
week on the partial
certification of parliamentary
elections held in the West
African country near the end of
last year.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
A United Nations political
team heads to the Maldives next
week for talks on how to help
support the Indian Ocean
archipelago in its transition to
democracy.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations and
humanitarian partners today
revised upwards an appeal for
funding to continue relief work
for six months among the more
than 300,000 people in the
Philippines island of Mindanao
who were affected by last year’s
tropical storm Washi.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The appeals chamber of the
United Nations-backed tribunal
in Cambodia trying cases of mass
murder and other crimes
committed under the Khmer Rouge
regime today sentenced the
former head of a notorious
detention camp to life in
prison, upholding an earlier
conviction and extending the
existing jail term.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations disaster
risk reduction agency stressed
today the need to boost
preventive measures in Fiji, as
heavy rains are predicted to
occur more frequently in the
archipelago nation, which has
been ravaged by severe floods
over the past week.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations is backing
a mass vaccination campaign
under way in northern Cameroon,
where a new outbreak of yellow
fever has killed at least seven
people.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
A United Nations political
team heads to the Maldives next
week for talks on how to help
support the Indian Ocean
archipelago in its transition to
democracy.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The UN declared an end to
famine conditions in Somalia
today, but warned that the
crisis in the Horn of Africa is
not over and requires continued
efforts to restore food security
and help people resume normal
lives.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations is backing
a mass vaccination campaign
under way in northern Cameroon,
where a new outbreak of yellow
fever has killed at least seven
people.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations declared
an end to famine conditions in
Somalia today, but warned that
the crisis in the Horn of Africa
is not over and requires
continued efforts to restore
food security and help people
resume normal lives.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) has begun
distributing rations in
Mozambique, where an estimated
70,000 people are in urgent need
of assistance after the country
was pounded by two tropical
storms.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations human
rights office today voiced
concern over a cattle raid in a
northern state of South Sudan
earlier this week, which has led
to 78 deaths and numerous
injuries among civilians, most
of whom were women and children.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The head of the United
Nations International Maritime
Organization (IMO) today
expressed deep sympathy to the
victims of a ferry sinking off
the coast of Papua New Guinea
that may have claimed more than
100 lives.
03 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations refugee
agency said today it is alarmed
by recent reports that displaced
people have been tortured and
killed in their camps by armed
elements in eastern Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC).
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
today voiced his appreciation of
the work of the outgoing United
Nations envoy to Sierra Leone,
Michael von der Schulenburg,
including his initiatives to
boost donor cooperation and
efficient aid use in the West
African country.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Sustainable development and
the environment topped the
agenda during talks today in
Paris between General Assembly
President Nassir Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser and senior French
Government officials.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Businesses with innovative
models that enhance commercial
success as well as contribute to
sustainable development have
been invited by the United
Nations to participate in the
World Business and Development
Awards (WBDA), which launched
its nominations today.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations relief
chief today visited areas in
South Sudan hit by recent ethnic
violence and met some of the
victims of a vicious cycle of
raids and reprisal attacks,
describing what she had seen as
"a terrible situation" with
people having lost loved ones,
property and livelihood.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations relief
chief today visited areas in
South Sudan hit by recent ethnic
violence and met some of the
victims of a vicious cycle of
raids and reprisal attacks,
describing what she had seen as
"a terrible situation" with
people having lost loved ones,
property and livelihood.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
A United Nations expert human
rights panel has voiced concern
about the right to security
impinging on the right to be
free from arbitrary detention in
El Salvador, as well as extreme
overcrowding in prisons and
police facilities in the Central
American nation.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations refugee
chief today thanked the
Pakistani Government for its
generosity towards Afghans who
have sought refuge in the
country, while also calling for
creating the right conditions in
Afghanistan that will promote
large-scale voluntary returns.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations
peacekeeping force in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
welcomed today the ratification
by the Government of a pact on
economic, social and cultural
rights.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The head of the United
Nations entity mandated to
promote gender equality today
said that her priority this year
is to enhance the economic
empowerment and political
participation of women and
called for the support of the
international community and the
entire UN system to ensure
success.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations refugee
chief today thanked the
Pakistani Government for its
generosity towards Afghans who
have sought refuge in the
country, while also calling for
creating the right conditions in
Afghanistan that will promote
large-scale voluntary returns.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Former Haitian leader
Jean-Claude Duvalier must face
charges for human rights
violations that occurred during
his presidency, an independent
United Nations rights expert
said today, adding that failing
to do so would represent a
failure in the country’s
judicial reform process.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
travelled today to the Gaza
Strip, where he underlined his
commitment to continue working
for peace and stability in the
Middle East, and voiced his
concern about the need to
increase humanitarian assistance
for Palestinians.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
today expressed sadness at last
night’s violent clashes at a
soccer match in Egypt which led
to the deaths of at least 74
people and injuries to hundreds
of others.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The United Nations-backed
independent tribunal set up to
try suspects in the 2005
assassination of former Lebanese
prime minister Rafiq Hariri
announced today that it will try
four men accused of carrying out
the crime in absentia.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
The top United Nations
humanitarian official voiced
relief today that seven aid
workers abducted earlier this
week in Yemen have now all been
released unharmed.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
Criminal gangs are becoming a
threat to the world’s glaciers,
which are already receding as a
result of climate change, the
United Nations said today,
citing a case in Chile where
police are investigating the
theft of some 5,000 kilograms of
millennia-old ice from the Jorge
Montt glacier.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
With the provisional results
of national legislative
elections in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC)
having now been announced, the
United Nations today encouraged
all actors to use legal channels
for resolving any disputes and
refrain from the use of force or
violence.
02 February 2012, 07:00:00 AM
A group of independent United
Nations human rights experts
today spoke out against the
ongoing use of anti-terrorism
laws to curb freedom of
expression in Ethiopia, where
several journalists were
recently given prison sentences
under such legislation.
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Monitor The Strategic Trends
Introduction:
The move toward a global
government received a big boost this
summer by the introduction of a
proposal for an International
Criminal Court. Over U.S.
objections, the United Nations
Diplomatic Conference voted 120 to 7
in favor of establishing an
international criminal court to try
individuals accused of genocide, war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and
the crime of aggression.
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