UN Votes Overwhelmingly Against U.S. Embargo on Cuba
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Friends and adversaries of the  United States voted overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly  on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic,  financial and commercial embargo against Cuba.
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Cuba hailed on Wednesday a decision by the new United Nations human rights watchdog to drop the communist nation from a list of countries with poor rights records, calling it a major diplomatic victory over its longtime ideological foe the United States.
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A day after moving to nullify the Bush administration's new rules restricting family travel to Cuba, the House on Wednesday voted to remove barriers to agriculture sales and student exchanges in the island nation.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. UNITED NATIONS -- France circulated Sunday a UN draft resolution calling for an arms embargo against Ivory Coast
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A UN Security Council vote on whether to threaten sanctions against Sudan hinged on China and other opponents who fear that the specter of punishment could ruin efforts to end a crisis that has killed more than 50,000 and spawned
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Congress overwhelmingly voted to ratify a free trade pact with the United States early Wednesday, rejecting claims the treaty will hurt Peru&#039;s farmers by flooding the Andean nation with subsidized cotton, rice, corn and potatoes.
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UNITED NATIONS Oct. 8, 2004 - Facing a surge of attacks around the globe, the UN Security Council voted unanimously Friday to step up its campaign against terror but backed away from authorizing a new list
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Cuba hailed on Wednesday a decision by  the new United Nations human rights watchdog to drop the  communist nation from a list of countries with poor rights  records, calling it a major diplomatic victory over its  longtime ideological foe the United States.
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The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to urge the United States to lift its four-decade old embargo against Cuba in a resolution adopted for the 16th consecutive year.
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The U.N. Security Council condemned a "significant increase" in the flow of weapons to and through Somalia in violation of a 1992 arms embargo and voted unanimously Wednesday to keep monitoring weapons trafficking in the poor and lawless Horn of Africa nation.
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The U.S. and its closest Western allies may soon call a vote on U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, even at the risk that Russia and China may abstain or veto the measures, officials said Sunday.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- The UN Security Council has voted to impose an immediate arms embargo on the Ivory Coast. The 15-member council also vowed to punish key government and rebel leaders with additional
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For the 13th straight year, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly urged the United States to end its more than four decade trade embargo against Cuba, rejecting Washington's argument that Fidel Castro is "a tyrant" who denies basic human rights to Cubans.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The African Union (AU) said yesterday it supports United Nations and French intervention in Ivory Coast as UN Security Council held talks last night on a French resolution to impose an arms embargo on Ivory Coast.
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The Senate unanimously approved a  bill on Wednesday blocking imports of Myanmar rubies and  timber, and lawmakers stepped up calls for a U.N. arms embargo  on the military-ruled Southeast Asian country.
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Several UN Security Council members objected on Thursday to a US draft resolution that threatens oil sanctions against Sudan but they supported a large
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize a regional force to protect Somalia's government which is under increasing pressure from Islamic militants.