Israel unhappy after EU blacklists 1980s town

We don't live in the Old Testament times anymore, you don't just get to take the spoils of war.
It's time for Israel to grow up.

Israel has complained about the EU's inclusion of parts of the town of Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut on a blacklist of "settlements."

The European Commission on 3 August added three postal codes in the town to a register of over 500 codes relating to "Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967."

The designation refers to Palestinian land annexed after the so-called Six-Day War in a move considered by EU countries to violate binding UN resolutions.

Products originating from annexed land cannot benefit from preferential tariffs agreed under a 12-year-old EU-Israel trade deal.

The commission for the first time also published the list online, saying "the way [the rules] are imple­mented in the EU should be streamlined in the light of experience."

The list was previously available to EU customs authorities who are supposed to use it to

Iran urges nonaligned nations role in Syria

A group of those 120 non-aligned Nations also came to the agreement that they had more of a right than the US or the UN to intervine in the Sryian conflict.
Why do I smell gas?

The final summit declaraton issued Friday said all countries had the right to development and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. It notably singled out Iran

Sudan withdraws candidacy for UN rights council

Azerbaijan is who the US Government wants to give part of Iran to.
Gee, "We" always back the best people don't "We"
And once again we have our favorite "Emo-child" Israel, sucking up all the attention don't we.

"Sudan joins notorious rights violators Syria, Iran, Belarus, Sri Lanka and Azerbaijan whose hypocritical aspirations to sit on the Council have properly led to embarrassing retreat," he said.

The Geneva-based council was created in March 2006 to replace the U.N.'s widely discredited and highly politicized Human Rights Commission. But the Human Rights Council has also been widely criticized for failing to change many of the commission's practices, including putting much more emphasis on Israel than on any other country and electing candidates accused of serious human rights violations.

Much of the blame lies in the U.N. system where regional groups select candidates for seats on U.N. bodies, often based on which country is next in line, not on merit. In many instances,

Probe at base amid cholera claims

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United Nations investigators have taken samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base in Haiti amid claims that sewage from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has made more than 4,000 people ill.

Journalists visiting the base unannounced came upon the investigators and mission spokesman Vincenzo Pugliese later confirmed that the military team was testing for cholera.

It was the first public acknowledgement that the 12,000-member force was directly investigating allegations that its base played a role in the outbreak.