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BBC News - Libya gunmen attack Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-africa-31001094

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shared by bobbycivita on 27 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Libya gunmen attack Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli
  • Corinthia Hotel,
  • car bomb exploded near the premises
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  • popular with foreigners in Libya's capital, killing three guards
  • Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel
  • reception area.
  • car bomb also exploded outside the hotel.
  • between three and five.
  • "I suddenly heard shots and saw people running towards me, and we all escaped from the back [of the hotel] through the underground garage. The hotel did a lockdown after that."
  • number of attackers is not clear.
  • not clear whether the gunmen are still inside the hotel, and whether any staff or guests are trapped there.
  • one gunman had been arrested
  • two assailants were still inside the hotel.
  • received a threat "a few days ago" warning managers "to empty the building".
  • popular with foreign diplomats and government officials.
Blair Peterson

UN human rights chief criticises security council over global conflicts | World news | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-council-over-global-conflicts

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shared by Blair Peterson on 28 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • “These crises hammer home the full cost of the international community’s failure to prevent conflict,” Pillay said. “None of these crises erupted without warning.”
  • Pillay said Syria’s conflict “is metastasing outwards in an uncontrollable process whose eventual limits we cannot predict”. She also cited conflicts in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Congo, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza.
  • The resolution acknowledged that the United Nations has not always used the tools in its charter for preventing conflict. It prescribed several steps for improvement, focusing on addressing human rights violations earlier and recognizing that such abuses are often warning signs of looming conflicts.
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      Blair Peterson on 28 Aug 14
       
      What are the tools in the charter that can be used to prevent conflicts? Why have they decided to not use them in the past?
  • The resolution said little about the political differences that often paralyze the security council, where sharp divisions between veto-holding members Russia and the United States have often thwarted action on Syria and Ukraine.
  • “Short-term geopolitical considerations and national interest, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of and long-term threats to international peace and security,”
  • The human rights chief said the use of veto power on the security council “to stop action intended to prevent or defuse conflict is a short-term and ultimately counter-productive tactic”.
  • And she suggested building on the Arms Trade Treaty by requiring that, in countries where there are human rights concerns, governments accept a small human rights monitoring team as a condition of purchasing weapons.
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