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Haley: US won't fund more than 25 percent of United Nations peacekeeping budget
The IED attacks are a "very serious concern", India's Deputy Permanent Representative Tanmaya Lal told a ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council on peacekeeping on Wednesday. The forceful termination of the mandate, preceded by the cessation of the OSCE mission, created a total vacuum of global presence in the occupied territories of Georgia, thus creating the black holes for human rights and as observed by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights - "one of the most inaccessible ...
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Maryland Judge Advances Emoluments Suit Against Trump
Trump has pledged to donate his hotels' profits from foreign officials to the Treasury. Still, the judge hints at his feelings toward the Trump International Hotel. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to address the issue during an afternoon press briefing, saying "I can't comment on pending litigation".
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Adnan Syed of 'Serial' Is Getting a New Trial
What influence-beyond notoriety-the programs actually had on the reality of the cases they explored has been unclear; only time, and Syed's new trial , will tell . Though the new ruling is promising for Syed - who received his initial vacated sentence on his very last appeal - he's not out of the woods yet. It's been downloaded more than 175 million times, setting a world record, and spawned numerous podcasts recapping or reviewing it.
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DoJ to Launch Review of FBI Surveillance Requests
Sessions, in a letter to three Republican committee leaders, reiterated that he had directed a senior federal prosecutor, Utah's USA attorney John W. Huber, to evaluate "certain issues", including whether such an appointment is necessary. Democrats have said the investigations are a waste of money and time. Sessions revealed, however, a federal prosecutor is examining the allegations.
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Hell Does Not Exist - Pope Declares
The apology was important in the view of the TRC, he said, because the Catholic Church is the only church that has not expressed regret for the part it played in the abuse at the schools. However, Vatican issued a statement , stressing that Pope Francis' claims, in which he allegedly denies the existence of hell, are a pure "reconstruction" of journalist Eugenio Scalfari , who interviewed the pontiff and can not be regarded as a genuine transcription of his words.
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Driver tries to ram soldiers in France: security sources
After a brief police manhunt, a man and a woman were arrested in the Isere region, a police official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to media. Francois Molins, who is heading up the investigation, said the attacker, Redouane Lakdim, 25, was known to security services for his links to radical Islam.