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Egypt FM moots Arab force for Gaza
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said an Arab force for the Gaza Strip could help end violence in the impoverished territory, the official news agency MENA reported on Saturday. However the minister, in a magazine interview to appear on Sunday, stopped short of making a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, Egypt, Israel, unity, violence
Research articles 2008-08-30
Democrats name Obama first black major US party nominee
DENVER, Colorado AFP — Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party. Obama's defeated rival Hillary Clinton dramatically halted a roll-call vote at the Democratic National Convention and proposed the Illinois senator be...
Tags: Democrat, Democratic Party, Illinois, nominee, Obama, president, senator, unity
Research articles 2008-08-27
Democrats usher Obama into history
DENVER, Colorado AFP — In a deafening moment of history, Democrats anointed Barack Obama the first black major-party nominee for president, in a cathartic release of unity, hope and tears. The newly-minted nominee then sent the Democratic National Convention into raptures by crashing his own party a day early,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Leadership, nominee, Obama, president, Republican, unity
Research articles 2008-08-27
Democrats name Obama first black major US party nominee
DENVER, Colorado AFP — Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party. Obama's defeated rival Hillary Clinton dramatically halted a roll-call vote at the Democratic National Convention and proposed the Illinois senator be...
Tags: Democrat, Democratic Party, Illinois, nominee, Obama, president, senator, unity
Research articles 2008-08-27
Democrats make history, and Obama the nominee
DENVER, Colorado AFP — In a deafening moment of history, Democrats made Barack Obama the first black major-party nominee for president, as they rode a delirious outpouring of unity, hope and tears. Obama took his stunning political rise to new heights as his primary foe Hillary Clinton dramatically halted...
Tags: Democrat, Denver, FINANCE, Illinois, nomination, nominee, Obama, president, senator, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, unity, White House
Research articles 2008-08-27
Unity in diversity?; the European Parliament and its elite after the 2004 enlargement
Unity in diversity?; the European Parliament and its elite after the 2004 enlargement. Stamm, Julia. Nomos 2008 256 pages $47.00 Paperback Studien zum parlamentarismus; 6 JN36 This study by Stamm (a science officer at COST--European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific...
Tags: CAREER, elite, European Parliament, unity
Research articles 2008-08-01
Unity Performing Arts Foundation: Building a New Fort Wayne Infrastructure
When Marshall White founded the Unity Performing Arts Foundation UPAF in June 2000, his primary goal was to raise a new kind of infrastructure in Fort Wayne - not buildings, but future stars. The result is a performing arts environment for young people, ages eight to 20, of diverse ethnic...
Tags: CAREER, Indiana University, Jones, Marshall, music, Shade, training, Unity, Youth
Research articles 2008-08-01
Turkish PM urges unity ahead of landmark cour ruling
ANKARA AFP — Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for national unity Saturday as the country's top court prepared to decide whether to close his ruling party. "The Turkish Republic is our firmament," he told the daily Hurriyet. "The column that supports it is union and unity; if...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, SOFTWARE, Turkey, unity
Research articles 2008-07-25
Assad calls for Palestinian reconciliation in Abbas talks
DAMASCUS AFP — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday called for reconciliation between Palestinian factions in a meeting with visiting Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, the state news agency SANA reported. He stressed "the need to exert every effort to achieve unity among Palestinian ranks as the sole means to...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Israel, Leadership, Syria, unity
Research articles 2008-07-06
The importance of dialogue; Meinhard von Gerkan discusses his architectural philosophy with Xu Xiaofei of Tsinghua University, Beijing
Q: What were your first steps as an architect like? How did you initially come into contact with architecture? A: In 1965, the first year of our practice, during which we hardly made any money, we won 10 first prizes, some of them in international competitions. The largest of...
Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Tsinghua University, unity
Research articles 2008-07-01
Town of Unity hosts display of Demo unity
UNITY, N.H. -- Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle. And the former rivals both understand they need each other now. Friday's unity event...
Tags: Democratic Party, Government, Obama, president, senator, unity
Research articles 2008-06-28
Obama hands Clinton funds to hasten unity drive
WASHINGTON AFP — White House contender Barack Obama dug deep into his own pocket Thursday to help out defeated rival Hillary Clinton as the pair met with her top fundraisers as part of an emotional unity drive. The 30-minute event at Washington's historic Mayflower Hotel took place the evening...
Tags: FINANCE, Obama, senator, unity, Washington, White House
Research articles 2008-06-26
Ahmadinejad wants unity with Iran's parliament
TEHRAN AFP — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday urged Iran's new parliament to show unity with his government, amid expectations the chamber could be critical of his increasingly controversial economic policies. "The government and parliament should become an example of unity and harmony for the world," Ahmadinejad said in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, Iran, president, SOFTWARE, unity
Research articles 2008-05-27
Palestinian PM pleads case for unity
LONDON AFP — Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad insisted unified authority in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was "absolutely essential" to progress, in a BBC radio programme broadcast Saturday. The Palestinian Authority needed to have sole control over arms in the territories for any unity to be...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, ambiguity, Government, Israel, unity
Research articles 2008-05-24
Clinton defiant heading into Democrats' home stretch
WASHINGTON AFP — Hillary Clinton was full of defiance as the former first lady and her Democratic White House rival Barack Obama began their final full week of a history-making selection epic. In the run-up to next Sunday's Puerto Rico primary, and the climactic contests two days later in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Democrat, Florida, Government, Obama, Republican, senator, unity, White House
Research articles 2008-05-23
Digital divide a threat to Indonesia's unity: president
JAKARTA AFP — The yawning divide between the haves and the have-nots of the digital revolution is a "threat to national unity" and even world security, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday. Yudhoyono told an audience including Microsoft chairman Bill Gates that information technology posed "formidable" challenges as...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Indonesia, president, Strategy, unity
Research articles 2008-05-09
UN's Ban reiterates support for Liberia
MONROVIA AFP — Liberia faces daunting challenges in boosting rule of law, reintegrating its population after civil war and promoting reconciliation and national unity, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said here Tuesday. Addressing the west African country's parliament, Ban said Liberia had made great strides in recovering from the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, reconciliation, troop, unity
Research articles 2008-04-22
Iraqi insurgent chief calls for Sunni unity: report
DUBAI AFP — The chief of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq has urged Sunni Muslims to abandon US-backed militias battling Al-Qaeda in the war-ravaged country, the SITE Intelligence Group reported on Tuesday. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi -- believed by the US to be a cyber creation for the Internet...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Iraq, Leadership, MARKETING, unity
Research articles 2008-04-15
Iraq unity conference condemns terrorism
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq wrapped up a two-day unity conference on Wednesday by condemning terrorism, but the event was severely hampered by two key parliamentary blocs boycotting it. The conference delivered a memorandum to the government on Wednesday which "condemned terrorism, extremist ideologies and urged the promotion of national...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, conference, faction, Government, Iraq, SOFTWARE, terrorism, unity
Research articles 2008-03-19
Iraq begins national unity conference
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq's feuding sectarian factions on Tuesday began a conference aiming to resolve their differences amid international concern that insufficient progress has been made toward national unity. The two-day national unity conference comes ahead of Thursday's fifth anniversary of the launch of the US-led invasion and as...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, conference, Iraq, leader, Leadership, unity
Research articles 2008-03-18