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Buying coffee that helps others
waynesboro@herald-mail.comThe United States imports 2.3 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee a month, more than any other country, according to the International Coffee Organization. Amid all the java flowing in the Tri-State, some businesses are selecting beans that help others....Tags: Animals, Genocide, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sales, Hate Crimes
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Jeffrey Goldberg: Obama's plan to arm Syrian rebels falls short
Here are five observations, most of them depressing, about the Syrian civil war, formulated in light of the announcement by the White House that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has, in fact, used chemical weapons and that, in response, the U.S. will...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Bashar Assad, Genocide, Iran's Nuclear Program, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Henry Gift: Doctor Was Champion Of Underserved, In Connecticut And Around The World
The Hartford CourantAfter Henry Gift's mother died in Guyana from lack of access to medical treatment, he pledged to become a physician and bring healing to people with no access to doctors. Gift fulfilled that childhood pledge — he became an internist who provided...Tags: Family, Yale University, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists, Guyana
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Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...
Tags: United Nations, Joseph Kabila, Human Rights, International Law, International Court or Tribunal
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Foltz honored for international development work
MANILA, Philippines -- Joseph Foltz of Petoskey, deputy chief for the Office of Environment, Energy and Climate Change at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Philippines, was recently honored for his outstanding work in the...
Tags: Human Interest, Environmental Issues, Weather, Conservation, Philippines
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Ending the cycle of abuse in Congo
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...
Tags: United Nations, Civil Rights, Joseph Kabila, International Court or Tribunal, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Letters: U.S. money for mass murder
Re "Pressure mounts on U.S. to curtail aid to Rwanda," Dec. 21 This article casually mentions the killing of about 5 million people in Congo, many of them by rebels assisted by Rwanda, which receives U.S. aid. I was under the impression that the...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Fiscal Cliff
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U.N. Security Council imposes arms embargo on Congo rebels
In a bid to quell violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo late Monday on two armed groups accused of rape and mass killings. The decision came just before Rwanda, which has been...
Tags: Civil Rights, Foreign Aid, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Susan Rice, March 23 Movement
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Former Rwandan minister sentenced to 35 years on genocide charges
A former Rwandan minister was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in jail for crimes tied to the nation's brutal genocide, including handing out machetes to a Hutu militia and spurring them to kill Tutsis. Witnesses described Augustin Ngirabatware as being...
Tags: United Nations, Wars and Interventions, International Law, Genocide, International Court or Tribunal
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A young survivor of genocide takes her message around the world
At 24, Clemantine Wamariya knows more about trauma and survival than most of us ever will. If we're lucky. When Wamariya was 6, she and her sister were forced to flee the ethnic killings in Rwanda, spending the next several years in a series of...
Tags: Genocide, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Oprah Winfrey, Politics, Hate Crimes
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Grace under ire: Bill Nelson’s wife’s passionate plea for civility
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelFor his whole career, newly-re-elected U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has preached centrist, bi-partisan politics although his opponents, this time around Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, have insisted he's really a lockstep liberal in moderate's clothing.... -
Third generation von Trapps charm with harmonies
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGThe great grandchildren of Maria and Baron von Trapp of "Sound of Music" fame did their famous ancestors proud Thursday at Artsquest Center in Bethlehem. The four von Trapp siblings - Justin, Amanda, Melanie and Sofia - delivered soaring and......
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