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Throughout the world, wars are raging, dictatorships are suppressing individual freedoms, millions of people are hungry and too many are dying due to inadequate medical care. With so many worldwide problems to address, officials from the United Nations (U.N.) should be focused on ways to help people living under tyrannical rule or suffering from impoverished conditions. I

PJ Tatler has obtained the document detailing the places across the United States where United Nations election observers will be deployed. The document identifies the stateside targets, particular officials as well as their country of origin. To see it, click here. For example, Aida Alzhanova of Kazakhstan will be monitoring in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona. Elchin Musayvev from Azerbaijan will be monitoring in Concord, New Hampshire. Kazakhstan has been criticized for a weak human rights record and a government that tightly controls speech, assembly and the free exercise of religion. Azerbaijan is worse. The government there has...

The militant Lebanese-based Hezbollah organization fired six rockets and a mortar shell at IDF outposts on Har Dov, near the Israeli-Lebanese border, Friday evening. Rockets were also launched at an IDF position on Mount Hermon. In response, IDF artillery and IAF helicopters fired at the source of the rockets. Earlier Friday, Hezbollah launched anti-aircraft missiles close to the Israeli-Lebanese border. Shrapnel landed in the Upper Galilee towns of Shlomi and Kiryat Shmona. There were no injuries reported in the incidents. "The air defense unit of the Islamic resistance... challenged Israeli warplanes that violated Lebanese airspace," Hezbollah said in a faxed...