21/10/2014 | Frente Externo
Venezuela's Revenge
Venezuela was elected Thursday to a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council, overcoming long-standing U.S. opposition to its membership on the world body's premier security panel and setting the stage for a potential clash over issues ranging from Syria to Ukraine.
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25/05/2011 | En Profundidad
Multilateralists Gone Wild
It's rare, to say the least, for a high-placed international civil servant to face criminal charges of sexual assault, as Dominique Strauss-Khan, the IMF's former managing director, now does, for allegedly attacking a chambermaid in a New York City hotel. But accusations of sexual misconduct in the upper echelons of global institutions are disturbingly common, if not always widely publicized.
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06/12/2009 | En Parrilla
Ex-U.N. investigator scolds U.S. on Darfur
A former top U.N. investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a five-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region.
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06/12/2009 | En Parrilla
Ex-U.N. investigator scolds U.S. on Darfur
A former top U.N. investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a five-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region.
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01/10/2009 | Frente Externo
U.N. Chief Says Iran Must Prove Its Sincerity on Nuclear Issue
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that Iran's construction of the Qom uranium-enrichment facility violates U.N. resolutions requiring it to halt all nuclear enrichment activities, adding that Tehran must prove to the world that it has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.
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