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Despite international desire to the contrary, there has already been cause to provide exceptions to the peaceful purposes reservation of outer space.

China made its intentions known today as Premier Wen Jiabao said the communist country will continue its support of Iran.

On June 21 a peace agreement was reached and signed between the Government of the Central African Republic and the country's major rebel groups in Libreville, Gabon.

The United Nations Security Council, unanimously passed an anti-proliferation resolution calling on all states to rid themselves of their nuclear weapons.

President John F. Kennedy advises the public of the missiles on Cuba and decides to impose a blockade.

Rich oil reserves power Iran's strong world trade position, enabling Tehran to defy UN nuclear restrictions & ignore requests to release 15 British sailors.

Somali pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden have proved there is no target too big or too small as the latest attack on a luxury cruise liner come to surface.

Recent evidence reveals that Iran has taken steps that could indicate the renewal of its nuclear weapons program.

United States President John F. Kennedy and his advisors determine that the Cuban missiles must be removed either by air strikes or by imposing a blockade around Cuba.

The inquiry hears that the UK had the possibility to resist the war but something in British diplomacy failed

Chief Prosecutor Luis Ocampo appears in front of the Security Council at the United Nations in New York to discuss the issues over Sudanese government officials.

Security Council fails to adopt sanctions against Zimbabwe leadership China and the Russian Federation cast negative votes, that veto the sanctions.

Secretary General condemns Burma's rulers for playing politics with victims lives following Cyclone Nargis.

"Africa is together on this issue because there are powerful African leaders scared that their crimes might be next on the ICC agenda," a western diplomat told Reuters.

The world's most reclusive country, is once again defying the international community - reaffirming its isolationist policies and amplifying the nuclear threat.

The sale of arms constitutes a significant part of what is known today as Sino-African trade. How has this trade evolved since the Cold War?

President John F. Kennedy's choice of quarantine instead of blockade is clarified by Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech of 1937.

Iran's defiance of the international community over its suspected nuclear weapons program is apparently worth continuing, at least in the eyes of the Iranian leadership.

Iraq is among an exclusive list of countries that claim to have had a great influence on world culture. A brief historical overview is provided here.

President Mugabe is sworn in after the June 27th Elections under scrutiny from the world's media and controversy surrounding the legitmacy of the elections.

Uncertainty looms as UN Staff Council voices opposition to expanded role for UN and issues its own Resolution, calling for the removal of all UN staff based in Iraq.

The recent deaths of African Union (AU) peacekeepers highlights the continued unrest and strife in Darfur.

With women joining national military and police in greater numbers, it is critical that Member States contribute even more female personnel to the United Nations.

While Vladimir Putin left China and returned to Moscow to direct the war in Georgia; America's President George Bush remained in Beijing able only to condemn the Russians

China's growing economy and interest in Africa is closely watched by the Western Superpowers, who question China's policies and motives on the continent.

The National Security Act of 1947 completely reshaped the military structure and intelligence community of the United States and directly effected American foreign policy

The International Criminal Court's indictment of Omar al-Bashir found vocal support from Susan Rice, a veteran of the Clinton administration's failed Rwanda policy

National Security Council Report 68 defined the Cold War as a global confrontation between the free world led by the U.S. & the Soviet Union intent on global domination.

The United Nations, African Union and United States have announced their commitment to achieve peace in Sudan's troubled western region.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein forced to watch himself being satirized in several South Park episodes.

The African Union has formally agreed to campaign for a 12 month suspension of the international war crimes case against President Omar Al-Beshir of Sudan.

What is the impact of the discovery of oil and gas in Burma on international relationships with China and India?

After nine days of heavy battle in the Somali capital, the city has become quiet again and some people are returning but a cholera outbreak looms on the city's outskirts.

A United Nations fact-finding mission says both sides in the three-week conflict in Gaza likely committed war crimes and perhaps crimes against humanity.

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki supports the security pact between the U.S. and Iraq, which would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011.

Tensions mount in the Horn of Africa as several countries try to resolve Somalia's political conflict. But Mogadishu's new leaders want no foreign intervention.

It is the Prime-Mininister Vladimir Putin rather than President Dimitry Medvedev who is currently in control of Russia, as shown by the recent Russia-Georgia debacle.

With allied troop deaths on the rise, reports of corrupt elections and the news that British commanders are rethinking their strategy, what are the reasons for the war?

Russia is solidifying its position in Georgia and tightening its grip on South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda seeks to rectify some of the damage done during the 1994 genocide of minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The United Nations has been in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia for 15 years, and yet, the area is decending into even further chaos.

Israel violated a range of human rights during its offensive in Gaza, including targeting civilians and using a child as a human shield, UN investigators said on March 23

The Darfur Peace Agreement has hardly lived up to its name but Special Envoys from the United Nations and African Union are trying to convince rebels to sign the pact.

For several months the threat of war has loomed inside Somalia. Ethiopian troops protecting Somalia's interim government are now battling fighters loyal to Islamists.

Out of the last 22 vice presidents, all but three had prior experience serving in government in Washington, D.C. The least experienced resigned after criminal charges.

In the second presidential debate, attacks escalated as Obama and McCain touched on alternative energy, Iraq, Russia, tax cuts, and health care plans.

Knowledge of the use of child soldiers in Burma continues to result in reports of human rights abuses, but no action on the part of the international community.

For the first time since the voyages of Zheng He in the fifteenth century, China has deployed its navy overseas, in response to the threat posed by Somali pirates.

Israel declared their independence in 1948 with recognition from the United States and Russia.

The fall of European Communism started in the Lenin Shipyards of Gdansk, Poland. Today, the free markets workers fought for; are dictating terms that may close the yard.