Reuters: UN calls for death penalty stop 19 December
1min
It is non-binding and stops short of an outright demand for the abolition of the death penalty. The United States voted against the resolution but kept a low profile throughout the process.
Reuters: Scientists declaration at Bali 07 December
2min
The U.N.-led talks in Bali involve about 190 nations and are aimed at making deeper and swifter cuts to greenhouse emissions to prevent dangerous global warming. The goal is to find a formula that will bring outsiders such as the United States, China and India into a global compact to fight growing carbon dioxide emissions.
Paradise Drowned - Tuvalu, the Disappearing Nation
50min
Tuvalu, the last nation to be accepted as a part of the United Nations, has the dubious distinction of being the world’s most endangered country, a Pacific Island paradise suffering from the effects of rising sea levels caused by global-warming.
Mysteries, Magic & Miracles: Episode 2
22min
Near-death experiences; natural disasters; prophecies of Armageddon
Five Disasters Waiting To Happen – Taking Action
3min
When unprecedented rainfall caused disaster in Mumbai it wasn't only the working class citizens who suffered. A Bollywood director talks about his loss during the extreme weather.
Reuters: Sri Lanka says no to UN monitors 15 October
2min
Rights groups say hundreds of people have been killed or abducted in Sri Lanka since last year's resumption of civil war following a four-year lull but the government rejects reports of abuses by its security forces as overblown.
Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Black Monday
4min
3000 people died in Paris on one excessively hot Monday in 2003. Could Black Monday have been prevented?
Reuters: Georgian 'died of natural causes' 14 February
1min
The exiled opposition leader collapsed and died at his fortified mansion in southern England, where he'd lived since Georgian authorities charged him with plotting to overthrow the government last year. Georgia's richest man lived in fear of assassination. Shortly before his death an alleged plot against Patarkatsishvili was uncovered in London, which prompted him to tighten his security.
U Thant Named United Nations Secretary General
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The United Nations votes to fill one of the highest posts in world diplomacy - that of Secretary-General of the world body. In a rare show of unanimity they vote Acting Secretary-General U Thant, who distinguished himself during the Cuban Missile Crisis, into a full term.
