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UNITED NATIONS -- Actress Angelina Jolie pleaded with world powers Friday to help the millions of Syrian refugees, sharply criticizing the U.N. Security Council for being paralyzed by its division over Syria s four-year conflict. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie R , speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting regarding the refugee crisis in Syria at the United Nations Headquarters in New York April 24, 2015. REUTERS Jolie briefed the council as special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues.Syria s ambassador said simply of her presence, She s beautiful. Nearly four million Syrians have fled the conflict into neighboring countri
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Portraying itself as a peacemaker, China said Thursday that Asian countries must treat each other as equals and rethink their security strategies to deal with a changing political and economic landscape and the failure of old policies. The old thinking on security, based on security alliances, national strength, deterrence and raw strength, instead of bringing security and peace to the world, only subjected it to dominance ... and even conflicts and wars in the past century, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told the ASEAN Regional Forum, the area s largest security grouping.Instead, countries should focus on
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Anastasija Zolotic won the United States first gold medal in women s taekwondo by beating Russian athlete Tatiana Minina 25-17 on Sunday to claim the featherweight divi
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From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, reaction to Tuesdays terrorist attack on the United States has been swift, positive, negative and surprising.EGYPTEgyptian President Hosni Mu
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Queen Elizabeth II turned 96 on Thursday, receiving a rousing Happy Birthday from a military band outside her Windsor Castle home, after a troubled year hit by health concerns.The Band of the Coldstream Guards, in red tunics and bearskin hats, played the t
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By CBS News reporter Katherine Arms.All across Kenya people are going to church and praying for a peaceful end to the crisis that s
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stanley france tacks, CBS News Chief European Correspondent Tom Fenton reports.For the first time in history, the ceremony of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace was altered. The band played the American National Anthem. and with Prince Andrew and American Ambassador William Farish in attendance, there were two minutes of silence for the victims. Americans wept, waved the Stars and Stripes and sang softly Thursday as a military band played the anthem. Queen Elizabeth II ordered the break with tradition as a gesture of solidarity with the American people suffering from the worst terrorist strike ever to hit their land.Mourning the loss of so many lives, nations from Albania to South Korea ordered flags flown at half-staff, declared national days of mourning and observed periods of silence. In London, thousands of onlookers and hundreds of Americans stood eight deep at Buckingham Palace s front gates and lined the road to the queen s main residence. Some carried miniature American flags.Flowers are also being brought to the American embassy in London, al
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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it stopped housing evacuated Afghans at one of the military sites that has accommodated them since the summer, citing the increased pace of their resettlement within the U.S.The last group of Afghan families housed at Fort Lee, Virginia, left the U.S. Army post on Wednesday
air force 1 to be resettled in communities across the country, the Department of Homeland Security DHS said.More than 25,000 Afghans relocated to the U.S. following the Taliban s conquest of their homeland have depa
asics sneaker rted domestic military installations to start new lives in America with the help of resettlement groups, the latest DHS figures show.As of Wednesday, 45,000 evacuees from Afghanistan remained at the other temporary housing sites at seven military installations in Indiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Virginia and Wisconsin. This historic milestone highlights the ongoing commitment and perseverance we have witnessed to safely welcome our Afghan allies to the United States through a whole-of-society effort, said Robert Fenton, the DHS official overseeing the department s role in the government s efforts to resettle Afghans. The U.S. government has not provided a firm deadline for when it wants to relocate all evacuees from the bases, but DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress Tuesday th
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CBS News For the first time in the Arab world, a presidential election is being held and no one knows ahead of time who s going to win.Millions went to the polls Wednesday in Egypt to experience their first real election, which will have big implications for the Middle East and U.S. policy. Determined and patient, people waited for hours for their turn to cast a ballot for one of 11 candidates. After so many decades of dictatorship and rigged elections, Egyptians are just thrilled with one simple but novel idea: This time, they have a real choice. Freedom. This day is freedom, said one voter.In February, 2011, after weeks of demonstrations in Cairo s Tahrir Square that forced President Hosni Mubarak from office, Wael Ghonim - a young Google executive - became one of the revolution s most powerful leaders. Back then, he urged these crowds to opt
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