U.N. anti-racism panel questions Israel
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A United Nations anti-racism panel has questioned Israel's policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon joined Western nations on Wednesday in criticizing the  world body&#39;s own Human Rights Council for picking on Israel as  part of an agreement on its working rules.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined Western nations on Wednesday in criticizing the world body's own Human Rights Council for picking on Israel as part of an agreement on its working rules.
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The new U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session this week in a move initiated by Muslim countries to condemn Israel for its military offensive in Lebanon, officials said Tuesday.
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Members of the U.N.'s new human rights watchdog formally agreed Tuesday to continue their scrutiny of Israel while halting investigations into Cuba and Belarus &#151; a move that immediately drew fire from the United States.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced plans Monday to appoint an independent panel to investigate last month's twin suicide truck bombings that killed 17 U.N. staffers and at least 20 other people in Algeria.
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At issue: whether a Pentagon analyst passed secrets to an Israeli lobby group, and whether that group passed the material to Israel.
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Israel has asked the United Nations top human rights body to consider dismissing its expert on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, after he said the European Union must suspend trade ties with Israel, a senior Israeli diplomat said.
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A U.N. expert on racism on Friday branded the defamation of religions &#151; in particular critical portrayals of Islam in the West &#151; a threat to world peace.
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Israeli and Arab diplomats  feuded bitterly on the U.N. General Assembly floor on Friday  after the United Nations approved a largely symbolic global  plan to combat terrorism three days before the fifth  anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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Durban: The International Cricket Council (ICC) hearing on alleged racism in Zimbabwean cricket was scrapped in Harare on Thursday after the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) and the players, who accuse its officials of racist behaviour, reached a stalemate.
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The United Nations investigator on racism on Friday condemned a rising trend of Islamaphobia, especially in Europe, where he said it was being exploited by some right-wing political parties.
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The UN expresses concern over rising tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 1 (IPS) - Trade between the European Union and Israel should  be halted in protest at human rights violations in the  Palestinian territories, a United Nations conference has heard.
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Ehud Olmert's apparent admission that Israel has nukes calls into question the country's longtime vow of silence.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Wednesday that Washington could boycott the United Nations's 2009 conference on racism in Durban, South Africa if it will likely degenerate into anti-Semitism.
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A three-strong team of experts will  travel to Lebanon on Saturday to begin a probe into allegations  of human rights violations by Israel during last month's war, a  top United Nations official announced on Monday.