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Healthy Living

BYU students express belief in climate change

By Lisi Merkley
September 27, 2019 12:00 AM
The internet is abuzz with talk about what needs to be done to address climate change following the UN Climate Change Summit held Sept. 21-23. But many nations, including the U.S., left the conference without any firm plans to decrease their contributions to climate change.
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Campus

BYU alum gives students advice on working for UN, other international organizations

By Tessa Lara Westlund
February 10, 2019 12:00 AM
Liz Jevtic-Somlai held an 'Ask me anything' discussion in the Kennedy Center Feb. 8. (Emma Willes)
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Nation

News roundup: Dec. 2, 2016

December 02, 2016 12:00 AM
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World

UN: IS using tens of thousands as 'human shields' in Mosul

By Associated Press
October 27, 2016 12:00 AM
Internally displaced persons clear a checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Islamic State militants have been going door to door in farming communities south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint to follow them north into the city and apparently using them as human shields as they retreat from Iraqi forces. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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Religion

President Uchtdorf visits Rome; church donates $3 million for refugees

By Mariana Chrisney
July 26, 2016 12:00 AM
The LDS Church advanced its humanitarian aid initiative with a $3 million donation to the United Nations' World Food Programme.
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Metro

UN urges solutions as refugee population hits record high

By Bailey Fruit
June 24, 2016 12:00 AM
GENEVA (AP) — Imagine the entire population of France uprooted from their homes, forced to flee danger, persecution or starvation. The U.N. refugee agency says more people than that — 65 million — were displaced worldwide at the end of last year, easily setting a new postwar record.
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Campus

Chinese Ambassador speaks at BYU

By Theresa Davis
October 07, 2015 12:00 AM
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai speaks at the Hinckley Center. Tiankai discussed relations between the U.S. and China. (Natalie Bothwell)
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Religion

UN representative addresses Catholic Mormon cooperation, religious freedom at UVU

By Lucy Schouten
April 14, 2015 12:00 AM
The Vatican representative to the United Nations said religious freedom's decline requires the international community to defend religious minorities at a conference on Mormons and Catholics at UVU April 13.
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World

Palestinians euphoric over UN recognition

November 30, 2012 12:00 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ‚ A Euphoric Palestinians erupted in cheers, honked car horns and chanted 'God is great' after the United Nations endorsed an independent state of Palestine, giving sweeping international backing to their demands for sovereignty over lands Israel occupied in 1967.
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World

United Nations General Assembly commences with world crisis at hand

By Beau Jones
January 01, 1970 12:00 AM
The 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. Headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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