UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan warned the UN Security Council on Tuesday that his Syria peace plan is perhaps the country’s “last chance” to avoid civil war, while voicing concern about intensifying human rights violations.
Marc Perelman meets Nickson Deng, the South Sudanese Ambassador to Belgium and the EU. They discuss the situation in South Sudan and the escalating tensions in recent weeks with neighbouring Sudan. The international community is very concerned and the UN Security Council passed a resolution on Wednesday demanding an end to hostilities between the two countries.
The EU announced Monday that it would ban the export of luxury goods to Syria as part of new sanctions to punish the regime's continued violence. Syrian forces shelled the central city of Hama on Monday, killing at least 28 people, activists said.
Syrian forces shelled the central city of Hama on Monday, killing at least 20 people, activists said, just a day after UN observers, monitoring a cease-fire agreement, visited the city.
An advance team of UN observers toured flashpoint areas of Syria Sunday amid a lull in violence in those areas, but opposition groups said government troops kept up heavy attacks on regions where observers were not present.
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to adopt a resolution authorising an initial deployment of up to 300 unarmed military observers in Syria for three months to monitor the country's fragile week-old ceasefire.
A team of UN observers charged with monitoring an internationally-brokered ceasefire in Syria arrived in the devastated city of Homs on Saturday, state news agency SANA reported.
The UN Security Council will vote Saturday on whether to expand the number of UN ceasefire observers in Syria from 30 to 300 and let Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon decide on their deployment.
Amid the scramble to stop the killing in Syria, François Picard’s panel weighs up what’s billed as the only plan in town. Also, the "tax the rich" mantra gains traction in both the French and US election races, and why one century on, the sinking of the Titanic still resonates.
Amid the scramble to stop the killing in Syria, François Picard’s panel weighs up what’s billed as the only plan in town. Also, the "tax the rich" mantra gains traction in both the French and US election races, and why one century on, the sinking of the Titanic still resonates.
