The UN, poverty and religious strife

Sixty years after its founding the UN remains a vibrant, multilateral forum for the achievement of mankind's undying dream of a united, peaceful world. This is borne out by not only the substantial membership of the UN - now standing at 191 - but by also its continued appeal among the world's states as a deliberative and conflict - resolution forum.

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NLF, a credible alternative - Jayanetti

Chamil Jayaneththi is a Central Committee member of the New Left Front led by Dr. Wickremabahu Karunaratne. He joined the stream of left wing politics as a member of the Nawa Sama Samaja Party in 1989 and practised Marxism.

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Egyptian riot police are deployed October 22. near the Saint Girgis Coptic Orthodox church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, following clashes between police and Egyptian Muslims protesting against a DVD release of a play produced by the Church that was considered offensive to Islam. The clashes, which left three dead and some 60 wounded, were some of the worst intercommunal violence Egypt has seen in years, underscoring the fragile religious balance of the Arab world’s most populous country.AFP


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