PETER JAMES SPIELMANN

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Forensic pathologist Dr. Stuart Hamilton, right, presents one of the photos in a series of what is reported to be photographic evidence of torture in Syria as Gerard Araud, France's ambassador to the United Nations, looks on during a news conference at U.N. headquarters following a closed Security Council meeting on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Ambassador Araud said a pall of silence lingered after the council members viewed the ghastly photographs of dead Syrian civil war victims, then questions slowly began about the credibility of the slides of the dead, who offer mute testimony to the savagery of a Syrian civil war in which more than 150,000 have died. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Security Council sees grim images of Syrian dead

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · April 15, 2014 9:08 pm

Israel irked by diplomat’s tacit Nazi remark

Israel irked by diplomat’s tacit Nazi remark

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · April 14, 2014 9:52 pm

UN rights chief blames most crimes on Syrian gov’t

UN rights chief blames most crimes on Syrian gov’t

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · April 8, 2014 8:47 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2011, file photo, a woman holds her sick child while he receives treatment for cholera at a Doctors Without Borders, MSF, cholera clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Top U.N. envoy Sandra Honore said this Monday March 24, 2014, that Haiti's cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world. Health officials in Haiti say the epidemic has killed more than 8,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

UN: Haiti has more cholera than any other nation

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · March 24, 2014 10:50 pm

C. African Republic: UN force needed for survival

C. African Republic: UN force needed for survival

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · March 6, 2014 3:26 pm

US proposes mediation team for Ukraine

US proposes mediation team for Ukraine

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · February 28, 2014 10:42 pm

Ukraine tells United Nations of Russian incursion

Ukraine tells United Nations of Russian incursion

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · February 28, 2014 9:28 pm

FILE - In this April 19, 2013 file photo, a supporter of Venezuela's newly sworn-in President Nicolas Maduro holds a picture of late President Hugo Chavez during Maduro's inauguration in Caracas, Venezuela. Civil rights and liberties around the world declined for the eighth straight year, dragged down by the Egyptian military's coup, Venezuela clinging to authoritarianism and Russia's crackdown on opposition groups, according to a pro-democracy watchdog group. (AP Photo/Gil Montano, File)

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Rights group: Egypt coup stuns democracy trend

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · January 23, 2014 11:17 am

US says Lord’s Resistance Army can be stopped

US says Lord’s Resistance Army can be stopped

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · May 29, 2013 7:15 pm

Lawyers: Haiti cholera lawsuit threatened at UN

Lawyers: Haiti cholera lawsuit threatened at UN

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · May 8, 2013 9:47 pm

UN: Girls as young as 6 raped by Congo troops

UN: Girls as young as 6 raped by Congo troops

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · May 8, 2013 5:28 pm

Court: Libyan trials could be a ‘new Nuremberg’

Court: Libyan trials could be a ‘new Nuremberg’

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · May 8, 2013 4:12 pm