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Christiane Amanpour: Bosnia’s lesson for Syrian slaughter Amanpour: Bosnia was where I learned objectivity does not mean drawing a false moral equivalence
U.S. Department of State: U.S. Takes the Reins of the UN Security Council Presidency statedept: About the Author: Alex McPhillips serves as Press Officer and Associate Director for Digital Media at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York. When Ambassador Susan Rice assumed the rotating monthly Presidency of the UN Security Council from the United Kingdom this week, she began by
Court Rejects Palestinians in Their Bid for a Tribunal For the Palestinian Authority, which had sought an investigation of an Israeli military offensive, the ruling was a setback to its effort to gain international recognition as a state. Maybe it is just interesting for me, since I am planning to write a study about the ICC. But yet it’s interesting.
UN discusses Gross National Happiness indicator as successor to Gross Domestic Product UNITED NATIONS — Should happiness figure in a nation’s bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness? I like the idea more and more every day… 🙂
I am the kind of journalist who thinks that if women had more positions of power and influence, there would be a material difference in the way things worked out. Christiane Amanpour one of ELLE’s 10 Powerful Women in DC
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths,but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29 (via audreyschild777)
Actually, I wrote this one on Monday morning, before Pal Schmitt resigned, so when it happened I put it aside. Only now I decided to rewrite a few sentences, extend it with one or two paraghraphs and post it anyway. I would like to state that this is my opinion, I don’t intend to offend anyone with it. So, apparently what entertains foreign media the most in this story is that first Hungarian president Pal Schmitt said he’s not going to resign, then he said he’s not going to resign once more and then he resigned. What happened in my…
