NEW YORK–(ENWESPF)–23 December 2010 – In the face of increased successes by international forces and the national army in Afghanistan, the Taliban may attempt spectacular attacks in the coming weeks, the top United Nations envoy in the country warned yesterday. “In other words, our sentiment is: before it gets better[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–23 December 2010 – Human rights officers in Côte d’Ivoire have substantiated allegations of more than 170 killings, hundreds of arrests and dozens of cases of torture, ill treatment and enforced disappearance of people over the past one week, a senior United Nations rights official said today. The West[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 23, 2010.  SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Dec. 18, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 420,000, a decrease of 3,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 423,000. The 4-week moving average was 426,000, an increase of 2,500 from the previous week’s revised[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 23, 2010. The following is a joint statement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton on the post-presidential elections situation in Belarus. “The United States and the European Union reiterate their call for the immediate release of the presidential candidates and the[Read More…]

(ENEWSPF)- Iraq is not safe for Christians this Christmas, the Associated Press reports: Iraqi Christians on Wednesday called off Christmas festivities across the country as al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on a beleaguered community still terrified from a bloody siege at a Baghdad church two months earlier. A council representing[Read More…]