UN says Iraq deadlier, Italians go home
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The United Nations, citing evidence of   severe torture, said Iraq had become deadlier than ever, as   local Iraqi forces took charge of a southern province from   departing Italian soldiers on Thursday.
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Iraq lacks any true spirit of reconciliation despite parliament's decision to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party return to government jobs, the United Nations' Baghdad envoy said on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN&#39;s peacekeeping chief warned of a surge in violence after the massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi and called on all parties to step back from the brink of war.
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UNITED NATIONS - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq told the UN General Assembly yesterday that terrorism is threatening to erase any gains made in reducing sectarian killings and establishing democratic principles in his country.
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ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini left for the Middle East on Monday in a new bid to win the release of two female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq six days ago and facing an apparent threat of execution.
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ROME : Italy was in shock at the killing of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq, described by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a return &quot;to the dark times of barbarism,&quot; but he pledged Italian troops would stay.
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In Colombia and across the world, the United Nations says it is seeing more internally displaced people, who flee their homes but not their countries.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 -- Nearly 50,000 Iraqi refugees returned home from Syria in the final 3 1/2 months of 2007, the latest sign of diminishing violence in this war-pocked country, according to new data from relief workers.
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ROME, Jan 25 (IPS) - Fifty-six percent of Italians want Italian soldiers  to leave Afghanistan, according to an opinion poll commissioned  by the daily news online La Repubblica.
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Dozens of international aid agencies  considered quitting Iraq on Wednesday following the abduction  of two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose  above 1,000.
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Torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Thursday.
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London, Oct. 18 (NNN) : United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the US-led war on Iraq has not made the world a safer place, according to BBC and Voice of America.
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The U.S.-led war in Iraq hasn't made the world any safer, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a British TV interview aired Sunday.
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TUNISâA ship carrying illegal immigrants to Italy sank off Tunisia, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 42 missing, news reports said yesterday, sharpening the debate in Italy over how to deal with hundreds of people trying to slip into
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The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday he is sending a representative to Baghdad to help millions of displaced Iraqis return home, showing a strengthened U.N. commitment to deal with the crisis and confidence in recent security gains.
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The British military death rate in Iraq is proportionally worse than that of the United States, for the first time since the 2003 invasion, The Sunday Telegraph said.
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Dozens of international aid agencies  considered quitting Iraq Wednesday following the abduction of  two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose  above 1,000.