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Kofi Annan to students: ‘It’s your world now’

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Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan predicted during a campus visit that the civil war in Syria will become even more tragic before the international community takes action to help resolve the conflict, but said he is optimistic about the political and economic prospects for Africa in the years ahead. (more…)

WikiLeaks Embarrasses U.S. in Espionage Efforts

By PravdaDecember 1, 2010Politicsafghanistan, anti-muslim, arab leaders, ban ki-moon, Britain, british government, China, france, hillary clinton, human intelligence, russia, soft intelligence, spies, u s, un secretary general, White House, wikileaks

U.S. accused of sending spies to Russia, Britain, France, China and UN Secretary General

UN Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and diplomats from Russia, Britain, France and China in the Security Council were monitored (spied on) entities by order of the Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton.

The charge is from Wikileaks, a website dedicated to revealing the secret military documents of the U.S. and other countries. The site has already released 400,000 secret documents about the war in Iraq and 90,000 confidential reports on abuses in Afghanistan. (more…)