NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–5 September 2011. Parents wait with their malnourished and dehydrated children in a corridor at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu The United Nations agricultural agency today called for greater efforts bring the food crisis in the Horn of Africa under control, saying that famine conditions had[Read More…]
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President Obama to Hurricane Irene Victims: The Entire Country is Behind You
NEW JERSEY–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2011. President Barack Obama walks with local and federal officials in a neighborhood hit with flooding from Hurricane Irene in Wayne, N.J., Sept. 4, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Today President Obama travelled to Wayne and Paterson, New Jersey to tour areas damaged[Read More…]
Coffee Party USA Invites You To Speak At ‘Enough Is Enough’ Rally at US Capitol Oct. 29
Coffee Party USA aims to put people back in the policy equation. (CoffeePartyUSA.org) Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- How can the American people rescue the country back from grasp of multi-national corporations? Can the American people take America back? The Coffee Party is a democracy movement that began on Facebook. Organizers Anabel Park and[Read More…]
UN Chief Receives Report of Panel of Inquiry Into Gaza Flotilla Incident
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 September 2011. The MV Mavi Marmara aid-carrying ship leaving Antalya, Turkey for Gaza on 22 May 2010 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday received the reportof the independent panel of inquiry examining the May 2010 incident involving a flotilla headed for Gaza which found that Israel’s interception of[Read More…]
WEEKLY ADDRESS: Extending the Transportation Bill to Keep America Moving
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 3, 2011. At the end of September, if Congress doesn’t act, funding for our roads and bridges will expire. This would put a stop to highway construction, bridge repair, mass transit systems and other important projects that keep our country moving quickly and safely. And it would[Read More…]
Presidential Proclamation–Labor Day
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2011. Every day, hard-working men and women across America prove that, even in difficult times, our country is still home to the most creative, dynamic, and talented workers in the world. Generations of working people have built this country — from our highways and skylines, to the[Read More…]
Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, September 2, 2011
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2011. TEPCO Begins Core Spray Cooling for Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3 Industry/Regulatory/Political Issues The Japanese government has released the results of detailed radiation measurements taken from 2,696 locations within the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy facility and in adjacent evacuation zones. The[Read More…]
NATO Secretary General Welcomes Turkey’s Announcement on Missile Defence
BELGIUM—(ENEWSPF)—2 September 2011. The following statement is attributed to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: I welcome Turkey’s announcement to host a radar which will be an important element of NATO’s missile defence capability, which was agreed at the Lisbon summit last November. This represents a critical contribution to the[Read More…]
UN Human Rights Chief Lauds Conviction of High-Level Bolivians for Serious Crimes
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–2 September 2011. The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed the decision by Bolivia’s top court to convict several high-level officials for their part in the deaths of over 60 people during anti-government protests in 2003, calling it an important step in the fight against impunity. In what became[Read More…]
Libya: UN Official Arrives in Tripoli to Set Up Humanitarian Operations
TRIPOLI–(ENEWSPF)–2 September 2011. WFP convoy with staple food commodities including wheat flour, pasta, vegetable oil and tomato paste on the way to the Libyan capital for distribution by the Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) A senior United Nations official has arrived in Libya accompanied by an inter-agency humanitarian team to re-establish[Read More…]
