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Suffering Syria confronts another winter

Humanitarian crisis grows as thousands more flee fighting and supplies run out [more]

Suffering Syria confronts another winter

More vaccination workers killed in Pakistan

Tragedy in Karachi and Peshawar as attackers target polio eradication campaign ...

A big day for internet freedom

The web remains a free and open platform after UN talks falter ...

Doha climate summit opens path to progress

Four important things the UN climate summit got right ...

Break the taboo, end the war on drugs

New film shows the true costs of the drug war and offers hope for a new way forward ...

The internet's future is being decided... right now

Will the wrong voices be heard at a key meeting on how the web is regulated? ...

See who voted for Palestine

An astounding 138 nations chose to support the path of peace and justice ...

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Rubbernecking the Syria crisis The world is focused on Syria: that doesn't mean global action to end the violence is coming soon ...	Urgent: hope transfusion needed for Rio+20 Pre-summit talks are using up positive thinking at an unsustainable rate ...
A new United Nations? The Security Council 'big five' – US, UK, France, Russia, China – are too powerful. Could today's vote change this? ...	Toothless and tongue-tied on Darfur The bloody conflict in western Sudan has faded from view. Why? ...
Appeal for aid money falls flat – again Millions at risk of hunger in West Africa, but international appeal has raised peanuts ...	The UN to investigate US Special rapporteur to chronicle situation of North America's indigenous underclass ...
No ceasefire – but a Plan B? UN pushes on with Kofi Annan's peace plan, even though it isn't working. But could it still be an opportunity? ...	Blue helmets in as new violence erupts Small UN observation team arrives to monitor the ceasefire that only Kofi Annan still believes in ...
Can New York impose peace? UN security council finally condemns Assad with one voice, but violence continues ...	Iran sanctions \| US shooting spree fallout \| Athens gets pocket money? UN Security Council debates Iran and Afghanistan; Greece gets another bailout ...
Assad's torturers exposed \| Bank tax \| Drug debate Decision time in Middle East; Europe gets serious about FTT; war heading for peace? ...	Banking crisis on trial \| Separate, not equal \| Mothers for justice Icelandic saga continues; International Women's Day; anti-nuclear families ...
Escape from Homs? Rescuing injured from Assad's vicious assault on Baba Amr ...	Make or break for Arab spring \| Venezuelan thriller \| Financial crisis crunch Voting in Egypt, Turkmenistan and Venezuela; summit of finance ministers in Beijing ...
History repeats: a fresh Falkands fracas Argentina and UK at loggerheads again over fraught issue of islands' sovereignty ...	UN Security Council: 40 years of bad vetoes Once again, world's most powerful countries choose self-interest ...
Victory: cluster bomb ban saved Citizens thwart attempts to reopen the way for legal use across the globe ...	Pakistan: 'enough' to US war inside its borders A deadly strike by Nato on remote checkpoints might be the last straw ...

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