U.N. chief calls for hundreds more monitors in Syria Hundreds more observers should be sent to Syria to ensure it follows an internationally brokered peace plan, which has yet to halt the bloodshed, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
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I get regular updates from change.org, but haven’t got this one yet, just now Christiane Amanpour mentioned it in the end of her show. Anyway, I signed it. Here’s the link if you want to sign it too: http://www.change.org/petitions/asma-al-assad-stop-the-bloodshed-in-syria# (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
‘CNN NewsCenter’ debuts on CNNI On Monday Isha Sesay anchored the premiere of CNN NewsCenter, a half-hour news program that takes viewers through the day’s big stories. Broadcast from CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, CNN NewsCenter airs immediately after Amanpour at 1530ET on CNN International. Follow Isha on Twitter at @IshaSesayCNN. 21.30 CET, right after Amanpour, it’s a really good show, uhm, both are good shows, watch them! Oh, and Christiane Amanpour’s whole show is up online every day!
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crisisgroup: CNN | Analysis: U.N. mission does nothing to change endgame in Syria The beginning of the U.N. observer mission to Syria heralds a new phase in more than a year of upheaval across the country. Success, however unlikely, could open the door to some form of dialogue between the regime and its opponents. But such is the polarization in Syria that most analysts see the mission as the least worst option before violence sets the agenda again. It’s not as though any “cessation of violence” has yet taken hold. The ceasefire was meant to begin last Thursday, but in…
Sudan warplanes bomb UN camp in S Sudan
