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No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations By Mark Mazower Princeton University Press, £16.95, 232 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.56 The United Nations is invariably judged on the...
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor Tony Blair will not seek another big international job after being rejected for the new post of "President of Europe", his allies said yesterday. Close friends of the former prime minister said...
The President of the International Court of Justice, ICJ, Hisashi Owada says that the Court’s advisory opinion on whether Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence went against international law will not be "a clear yes...
''What I'd say, I don't mess about with my girls'' When you're born, you're given a name and a football team. You only get to change one. Effort without talent is a depressing situation....but talent without effort is a...
Saturday 21st November, 05:46 AM JST BRUSSELS — Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog...
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has become the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history, but 20 years after its adoption, much more remains to be done to turn its promises into reality for millions...
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The first two Norwegians to die of swine flu were carrying a mutated version of the H1N1 virus, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said Friday. The World Health Organization in Geneva said...
PRAGUE, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a panel discussion on Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Prague. Vice Premier and...
HAVANA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The representative of UNICEF, or the UN Children's Fund, in Cuba said here Friday that Cuba is among the countries that have best implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that...
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- An international effort against the sale of counterfeit prescription drugs on the Internet shut down 72 Web sites, officials announced Friday in New York. Operation Pangea II involved Interpol, U.S....
