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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the shelling of the U.N. compound "an outrage" and demanded a full investigation. The bombardment occurred shortly before the Secretary-General was to meet with Israeli officials to plead for an end to what he called the "unbearable" conflict in Gaza. Diplomatic niceties were not much in evidence, however. The shelling puts a further strain on already tense relations between the U.N. and Israel. Relief officials of the world body in Gaza have strongly criticized the Israeli action for its humanitarian toll, and Israelis are generally suspicious of an organization they accuse of long...
...history and the imposition of emergency rule would inspire uproarious comedy. But as Pakistan and the world outside go to rack and ruin, all these register as noises off - if at all - in the consciousness of Butterfly, saturated as it is with frequently misspelled brand names ("La Prarry ki face cream and Landscomb ka mascara"), manic socializing and "GTs" (get-togethers...
...there you have it: the war on Christmas is a godless plot cooked up by a cabal of latte-sipping liberals, greedy retail tycoons, bearded ACLU communists and Ban Ki-moon acolytes who secretly gather in Bay Area synagogues to smoke pot, deface Bibles and perform abortions...
...shops, cars, banks and even government buildings, including the Hellenic Parliament Foundation and the Foreign Ministry's diplomatic academy. Some 320 stores, 50 banks and a number of other civilian buildings have been damaged or destroyed in Athens, with another 100 stores in the northern city of Thessaloníki targeted. There have also been outbreaks of violence in several small cities and on the island of Corfu...
...Sight Officially, the Philippines knows it can't sustain having 10% of its population gone for decades at a time, particularly when a worldwide economic recession means fewer jobs overseas and smaller remittance checks sent home. During an October meeting on global migration in Manila, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that millions of migrants were at risk of losing their jobs in the wake of the financial crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state...