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Serbia’s new president revives Balkan tensions by denying Srebrenica massacre was genocide Serbia’s new nationalist president has been in office for less than a week and he’s already rocking fragile Balkan stability and casting doubt over his proclaimed pro-European Union policies. “There was no genocide in Srebrenica,” Nikolic told Montenegro state TV last week.
U.N. struggles for answers as Syrian truce falls apart Following another bloody weekend in Syria, rebels said they would no longer follow a truce brokered by the United Nations, saying President Bashar al-Assad wasn’t adhering to his end of the agreement, Reuters reported.
united-nations-human-rights: I am appalled by the atrocities committed in El-Houleh. Preliminary investigations indicate that the attacks possibly directed at the civilian population have resulted in the killings of 108 people, including 49 children, and 34 women… “Once again, I urge the Security Council to consider referring the case of Syria to the International Criminal Court,” said UN human rights chief Navi Pillay at the Human Rights Council’s special session on the killings in El-Houleh in Syria, 1 June 2012. Read Pillay’s full speech: http://bit.ly/LdsIEt According to witnesses we interviewed, most of the 108 victims of the killings in El Houleh…
Clinton rejects Putin’s claim that Russia takes no side in Syrian conflict Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she doesn’t quite buy the claim that Russia is neutral in the Syrian conflict. Well, who does?
Robert Mugabe asked to be UN ‘leader for tourism’ The Zimbabwe president, accused of ethnic cleansing and bankrupting his country, asked to champion tourism .
Supporters and Critics of Annan See Crisis in Syria as a Threat to His Legacy After excelling in diplomacy for years, Kofi Annan is being criticized for his peace plan for Syria, which continues to have violence despite a cease-fire.
Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will President Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, reserving the final say on approving lethal action, say current and former aides.
Early Morning Rain: BBC News confuses United Nations and video game logos seriously?! 😐 early-morning-rain: The BBC has apologized to its viewers after mistakenly showing a graphic from the computer game Halo instead of the United Nations Security Council during one of its news broadcasts. The error occurred during a new segment last week on the continuing unrest in Syria.
Syrian diplomats expelled from countries around the world US, UK, France, Germany are among the countries that expel Syrian ambassadors after Houla massacre.
crisisgroup: As the U.S. and Others Toss Syria’s Envoys, Is Moscow Changing Its Mind About Assad? | TIME By Rania Abouzeid International envoy to Syria Kofi Annan met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Tuesday, in a bid to salvage Anna’s battered plan for peace. “He conveyed in frank terms his view to President Assad that the six-point plan cannot succeed without bold steps to stop the violence and release detainees, and stressed the importance of full implementation of the plan,” Annan’s office said in a statement. For his part, Assad “affirmed to Annan that the success of his…
