World News
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Rethinking the United Nations for the Networked World
Sep 26, 2014This week’s UN Climate Summit in New York did more than address the urgent issues of climate change. It also put a spotlight on the UN itself, and the role of the UN in tackling the most... -
World Exclusive: South Sudan Rebel Threatened UN Just Before Helicopter Shooting
Sep 11, 2014Al Jazeera has aired exclusive audio of South Sudan Liberation Army rebel commander Peter Gadet threatening to shoot incoming UN aircraft, just nine days before a UN helicopter was shot down on 26 August 2014 over... -
Global Parliament of Mayors: Can Cities Change the World?
Aug 7, 2014In a newly released research report, Professor Benjamin Barber, political theorist and author of If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities, Richard Florida, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto and Don Tapscott, best-selling... -
UNICEF statement on killing of school girls in Rural Homs
Jul 4, 2014UNICEF is appalled at the senseless deaths of four young girls who were killed by a mortar explosion as they left their school in Homs governorate earlier this week (29 June). The four deceased girls, aged... -
State Leaders in Nigeria Offer Skills Trainings to Combat High Illiteracy and Unemployment
May 31, 2014While applying to university, Isabella Anna Anzolo, 20, enrolled in a free computer literacy training offered by a local organization in Lafia, the capital of Nigeria’s Nasarawa state. Anzolo says she wanted to gather new skills...