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Israeli ID card of Ouda Tarabin, Israeli Bedouin.
Israeli prisoner in Egypt petitions for international intervention
MENA
Egypt Independent
24 Apr 2013
Ouda Tarabin, an Israeli citizen imprisoned in Egypt since 2000 on espionage charges, accused his country of betraying...
Animal carcasses lie on the ground, killed by what residents said was a chemical weapon attack on Tuesday, in Khan al-Assal area near the northern city of Aleppo, March 23, 2013.
Analysis: Crossing Obama's 'red line' on Syria will require concrete proof
Reuters 24 Apr 2013
While President Barack Obama has declared a "red line" over Syrian use of chemical weapons, US officials...
Babies as young as six months victims of rape in war: UN envoy
Reuters 18 Apr 2013
  In her first seven months as UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a...
Jordanian soldiers help Syrian refugees disembark from a vehicle after crossing the border from Syria near Mafraq, on 18 February 2013. The number of Syrians who have fled their country since a deadly civil conflict erupted two years ago has hit one million, the UN's refugee agency said Wednesday.
'We are broke,' UN says as Syria refugee funds dry up
Reuters 05 Apr 2013
The United Nations gave its starkest warning yet on Friday that it would soon run out of cash to cope with the vast...
A Sunni gunman fires his weapon during a clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, 13 May 2012. Gunfire broke out in the city Saturday and continued through the night primarily between a neighborhood populated by Sunni Muslims who hate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and another area with many Assad backers from his Alawite sect. Lebanon's national news agency NNA said one soldier was shot dead by a sniper in the city early Sunday. Another man was found dead on the side of a road while a third died after a shell landed in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
UN approves first global arms trade treaty
Reuters 02 Apr 2013
The 193-nation UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the first-ever treaty on global arms trade that...
Recruits of the newly formed Congolese Revolutionary Army march during military training in Rumangabo military camp, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 23, 2012.
UN Council approves 'offensive' peacekeepers for DR Congo
AFP 28 Mar 2013
The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved the first-ever "offensive" UN peacekeeping brigade...
UN experts condemn Shura Council's NGO bill
Egypt Independent 28 Mar 2013
United Nations human rights experts have slammed Egypt's draft law regulating NGOs, which many activists decry for...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listens to journalists' questions during a joint press conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Sofia, May 5, 2010. The two-day panel, to be addressed on May 6 by Ban, brought together more than 150 government officials, analysts and journalists from across eastern Europe, as well as activists who took part in the upheavals in Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia.
United Nations orders investigation into Syria chemical attack
Reuters 21 Mar 2013
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday announced that the United Nations will launch an investigation as...
Brotherhood: Giving women some rights could 'destroy society'
Reuters 15 Mar 2013
The Muslim Brotherhood warns that a UN declaration on women's rights could destroy society by allowing a woman to...
A Syrian child stands next to a deactivated bomb in his house, in the northern Syrian town of Taftanaz, in the Idlib province, 9 November 2012. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his future could only be decided at the ballot box and denied Syria was in a state of civil war, despite fresh attacks and heavy fighting near the Turkish border.
UN says Syrian refugee numbers could triple by end of 2013
Reuters 10 Mar 2013
The number of refugees outside Syria could triple by the end of the year from the 1 million registered now if there is...