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Israel should have used less force during the Nakba Day riots of May 15th, according to a new United Nations report. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the shooting of seven people who were among the hundreds who attempted to storm Israel's northern border. Nakba Day is an annual anti-Israel event held on the anniversary of Israel independence...

LONDON (AFP) - A right-wing American think tank is offering 10,000 dollars (7,700 euros) to scientists and economists to dispute a climate change report set to be released by the UN's top scientific panel, media reported. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which receives funding from oil giant ExxonMobil according to the Guardian, sent letters to scientists in the United States, Britain and elsewhere offering the payments in exchange for articles emphasising the shortcoming of the UN's report. AEI also reportedly offered additional payments, and to reimburse travel expenses. The report, due to be released Friday in Paris by the UN's...

Major Western allies push for closing U.S. gulag after damning UN report PAUL KORING From Saturday's Globe and Mail WASHINGTON — As most major Western allies stridently demand the closing of the U.S. Caribbean gulag at Guantanamo Bay, Canada's conspicuous silence remains a rare exception. British, French, German and Italian leaders have all pushed for Guantanamo's closing in recent weeks after a damning UN report that found it falling far short of meeting international standards of justice. Calls for shutting down Guantanamo have since echoed around the globe. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says close it. So does Louise Arbour, a...

...In chilling detail, often reading like a paperback thriller, the United Nations report traces months of plotting by top Syrian intelligence officials - including President Bashar al-Assad's powerful brother-in-law - and their Lebanese proxies that included constant surveillance of Mr. Hariri's movements and the forced recruitment of a fake assassin to make a "suicide tape" to hide the real hands behind the bombing that killed Mr. Hariri in February...