United Nations Security Council
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of international sanctions, and the authorization of military action. Its powers are exercised through United Nations Security Council Resolutions.The Security Council held its first session on 17 January 1946 at Church House, London. Since its first meeting, the Council, which exists in continuous session, has traveled widely, holding meetings in many cities, such as Paris and Addis Ababa, as well as at its current permanent home in the United Nations building in New York City.There are 15 members of the Security Council, consisting of 5 veto-wielding permanent members (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States) and 10 elected non-permanent members with two-year terms.
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Spies, Chopin and a last-minute rescue in Libya | Alan Rusbridger
When Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was seized reporting Libya's civil war, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger flew out to secure his release. In an extract from his book, he tells of a surreal three days in Tripoli negotiating with Gaddafi's ministers, being trailed by spooks and practising Chopin in a deserted hotel.
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D'oh!
Today’s video games are so sophisticated, and the shenanigans at the UN can be so sophomoric. Perhaps that’s why, in a piece in May about Amnesty International’s criticism of UN involvement in the Syrian conflict, the BBC mistook the logo of the United Nations Space Command for that of the UN Security Council.
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The week ahead: Glenn Mulcaire, Julian Assange and goal-line technology
A guide to the big stories of the week ahead provided by Foresight News. Addressing his new cabinet last week, Syrian President Bashar al Assad stated that the country was in a ‘state of war’ and spoke of the need to direct all policies towards winning the war. Violence among government forces and opposition groups continues, [.
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Ghassan Tueni, Top Lebanese Journalist, Dies at 86
Mr. Tueni was considered the foremost journalist in Lebanon, if not the Arab world, and in the vanguard of a generation of postwar Arab intellectuals.
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BBC bloops again as it uses Halo image instead of UN logo
The BBC has been having a bit of an image crises this week. First we had an almost ten year old picture of dead bodies in Iraq being used to illustrate the massacre of 100 plus people in the Syrian town of Houla.
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Panorama versus Eurovision: the balance dilemma that the BBC faces
There is much discussion, especially at the time of elections, about BBC balance: the Corporation's statutory obligation to be politically even-handed across the range of its programmes. This obligation is often controversial, with objections that, for example, the BBC is one-sided over certain issues (the monarchy, global warming and Europe are regularly cited).
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Good to meet you … Martin Birdseye
A retired engineer and full-time peace activist believes the Guardian is a buzzing manifestation of everyone's liberal instincts.
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Clashes in Syria as U.N. ceasefire monitors due
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces shelled the city of Homs on Sunday, resident opposition activists and a rights activist said, as a six-person advance party of U. N. observers is due to arrive in Syria to monitor a ceasefire meant to start four days ago. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the 30 unarmed observers who have been sanctioned to enter Syria by a unanimous vote at the Security Council on Saturday was insufficient and had to be "beefed up.
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Activists: Shelling of Syrian city resumes
Syrian troops resumed their shelling of residential neighborhoods dominated by rebels in the central city of Homs Sunday, activists said, after the U. N. Security Council voted to dispatch the first group of monitors to the country to shore up a shaky truce.
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U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. Russia and China joined the rest of the Security Council to authorize the deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers in the first resolution on Syria the 15-nation council managed to approve unanimously since the uprising erupted in March 2011.
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