| SOP newswire |  | Taking Training to a New Level, Kirkuk Police Academy - KIRKUK — It’s the sound that strikes you first. The yelling and chanting, shrieking whistles, the thunder of boots striking the ground. Then there is the visual: hundreds |
| SOP newswire |  | Independent Election Observers Prepare to Monitor Timor - On Wednesday, May 9, the Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) will dispatch nearly two dozen nonpartisan observers to polling |
| SOP newswire |  | Italian Americans, Prodi keen to push EU reform ahead - LISBON (ANSA) - Italian Premier Romano Prodi said on Wednesday that overcoming the impasse in efforts to agree a European Constitution could require some member nations to move ahead alone. |
| SOP newswire |  | Violence in the Comoros Cause For Concern - The United States is concerned by the reports of fighting on Anjouan Island in the Comoros between the Union of the Comoros army and Anjouan President Bacar's forces. |
| SOP newswire |  | Over $30 billion in commitments made at UN-chaired Iraq Compact meeting - In support of the International Compact on Iraq, a five-year plan for peace and development in the war-torn country co-launched today by |
| SOP newswire |  | Somalia: UN agency steps up aid to first wave of people who fled Mogadishu - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said it was stepping up a drive to deliver food to almost 100,000 of the 365,000 people driven from their homes in Mogadishu |
| SOP newswire |  | UN Website More To Be Thoroughly Multilingual - Delegates attending the United Nations Committee on Information meeting in New York today called for new measures to make the world body’s |
| SOP newswire |  | Nepal: Election Delay Should Furnish Time to Address Concerns - The senior United Nations envoy to Nepal today said an announced postponement in Constituent Assembly elections planned for June should offer time to |
| SOP newswire |  | Terrorism Report Highlights Global Challenge - Washington -– International counterterrorism cooperation is improving, but new terrorist tactics and a spike in Iraqi violence led to a 25 percent increase in terrorist incidents worldwide in 2006. |
| SOP newswire |  | Ban Ki-moon urges NPT review meeting to address crisis on nuclear arms front - Spotlighting the current “crisis” in international efforts to address the world's nuclear arsenal, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on delegates attending a review conference |
| SOP newswire |  | On anniversary of chemical weapons pact, Ban Ki-moon urges destruction of stockpiles - Marking the tenth anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on countries that still possess these arms to abolish them. |
| SOP newswire |  | Security Council team’s meetings in Kosovo cause for confidence, official says - The head of a United Nations Security Council team travelling in the Balkans today said its meetings in Kosovo give cause for confidence on the future of the Serbian province that has been run by the |
| SOP newswire |  | Nepal Attacks targeting schools and educational staff on the rise - Deliberate political or military violence targeting education systems, from the assassination or abduction of teachers and students to the bombings and burnings of schools |
| SOP newswire |  | 12 year old Beheading Video Draws Widespread Outrage - Washington " Human rights organizations, religious leaders and government officials alike expressed outrage after a video that depicts a child beheading a man was circulated in Pakistan, and responsibility for the act claimed by the |
| SOP newswire |  | All Countries Can Gain from Globalization Now - Washington -- Even the least developed countries can accelerate growth and poverty reduction by embracing trade and building strong institutions, a U.S. central bank governor says. |
| SOP newswire |  | UN fact-finding mission to Fiji - The United Nations fact-finding mission dispatched to Fiji to assess the political and electoral situation in the Pacific island nation in the wake of the coup d’état last December wrapped up its work today. |
| SOP newswire |  | Nepal: UN brings together local leaders for talks on human rights in peace process - Teams from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal today participated in a series of meetings with |
| SOP newswire |  | 21 years since Chernobyl, world cannot forget loss and pain - On the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that although |
| SOP newswire |  | Rejecting Kosovo Plan Likely To Provoke Violence - Washington -- Kosovo might achieve independence even if Russia blocks such a move in the U.N. Security Council, and the advantages of independence outweigh |
| SOP newswire |  | Kosovo holds talks with European Union officials - The Security Council delegation heading to Kosovo on a fact-finding trip to help determine the permanent future status of the Serbian province with an ethnic Albanian majority stopped in Brussels |
| SOP newswire |  | Symposium Explores Experience of Being Muslim in America Today - The symposium moderator was John Esposito, a professor of religion and international studies at Georgetown, and the founding director of the university's Talal Center. |
| SOP newswire |  | Almost 20 die at hands of smugglers in failed effort to reach Yemen - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today said that at least 18 people died – either by being thrown overboard on the high seas by smugglers |
| SOP newswire |  | DR Congo as violent clashes displace tens of thousands - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are rushing aid to mitigate |
| Peter Giordano |  | Remembering Boris Yeltsin - Trying to remember the Boris Yeltsin era for the positive aspects |
| SOP newswire |  | Afghan intelligence officer beheaded - KABUL, Afghanistan - Assailants abducted and beheaded an Afghan intelligence service employee and struck one of the agency's vehicles with a remote-controlled bomb in a separate attack, |
| SOP newswire |  | Bombs kills eight Afghan agents, police - JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) - Six Afghan intelligence agents and two policemen were killed in remote-controlled bomb blasts in Afghanistan Monday in |
| SOP newswire |  | Kyrgyz Republic: Interference with Independent Media - In the pre-dawn hours of April 20, Kyrgyz government agents entered the Media Support Center Foundation printing press established by Freedom House, stopped the print runs |
| SOP newswire |  | Afghanistan: UN opens new office in Daikundi to drive development - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today opened its latest new office, in Daikundi, to drive development efforts in the central highlands of Afghanistan. |
| SOP newswire |  | UN refugee chief travels to Sudan to spotlight problems at opposite ends of country - The United Nations refugee chief heads to Sudan next week to discuss the western war-torn region of Darfur, home to a swelling population of |
| SOP newswire |  | Security Council Reform Deadlocked - The world"s countries remain so divided on the details of Security Council reform " from the question of expansion to the use of the veto to |
