GENEVA: Extremist Islamic groups in Syria are committing a "soaring" number of killings in the country's north that could amount to war crimes, the UN human rights office said on Thursday.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says that over the past two weeks her office has received reports of "a succession of mass executions of civilians and fighters who were no longer participating in hostilities in Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa by hardline armed opposition groups in Syria, in particular by the" al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
She warned that such killings violate international humanitarian law, and the numbers of such violations are thought to be alarmingly high.
26 December 2013 – The United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees today condemned
Israel’s latest demolitions in the West Bank which have displaced 68
people, including 32 children, in the depths of winter, saying it is
violating international law and calling on it to abide by its
obligations.
“Because of these demolitions, which violate international law, these
historically self-sufficient communities have been forced to endure the
pitiless seasonal weather in inadequate housing, entirely dependent on
international assistance,” the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
said of the demolitions which took place on Christmas Eve in Ein Ayoub
near Ramallah and Fasayil Al Wusta near Jericho in the Jordan valley.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The "unacceptable" situation
that Cyprus finds itself in -- still divided after 40 years of numerous
U.N. Security Council resolutions that call for its reunification -- is
an example of the harm that can result from the non-enforcement of
United Nations decisions, the president of the island nation told the
U.N. General Assembly here Thursday.
Une intervention militaire en
Syrie contre le régime de Bachar Al-Assad est apparue un peu plus
probable, mardi 3 septembre. Aux Etats-Unis, le président Barack Obama a
fortement progessé dans ses efforts pour obtenir un feu vert du Congrès
américain. Et en France, François Hollande a réaffirmé sa détermination
à agir, à la veille du débat parlementaire sans vote. Face à ce
volontarisme affiché, le secrétaire général des Nations unies, Ban
Ki-moon, a mis en garde contre les risques d'une "action punitive".
Francetv info vous résume les principaux éléments à retenir de cette
journée.
Chile y Argentina lograron detener el pedido de una empresa
textil estadounidense para quedarse con el dominio ".patagonia", en un
reclamo ante la Corporación de Internet para la Asignación de Nombres y
Números (ICANN), indicó una fuente del gobierno chileno."La empresa
textil estadounidense Patagonia Inc., dedicada a la indumentaria
deportiva, declinó el 10 de julio insistir en la obtención del dominio
'.patagonia', solicitado el año pasado ante la ICANN", señaló un
comunicado de la Dirección de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales
(Direcon) de la cancillería chilena.
