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AT&T Helps Military Families and Soldiers Connect for Mother’s Day
AT&T will donate more than 30,000 prepaid phone cards in 2008 to military personnel stationed overseas with the help of the USO. The donation,...
First Sioux Soldier Given Nation’s Highest Honor
It's taken nearly 60 years for Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble to become the first Sioux-American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, the...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007!
Looking back and choosing the top good news stories of the year was a happy exercise and I've concluded that 2007 was a good...
Children Send Holiday Wishes to 1,000 Kenyan Peacekeepers
Kenyan children have sent more than 2,000 homemade Christmas and New Years messages to their country’s nearly 1,100 peacekeepers serving under United Nations' blue...
Angelina Jolie Spotlights Plight of Iraqi Refugees as Goodwill Ambassador (Video/text)
Actress and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is visiting Iraq and Syria to raise awareness of the plight...
Largest Peacekeeping Force Committed for Darfur
"The UN Security Council has voted to send peacekeepers to the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan, after months of wrangling. Up to 26,000 troops...
Sailor Honored for Boosting Morale
A Florida Naval Reservist, who left his position as an attorney to serve a seven-month tour of duty in Iraq, is being honored for...
Violence Down Sharply in Sub-Saharan Africa
"After decades as the world's most violent region, sub-Saharan Africa is finding peace. Most of the drop in violence is recent." From 2002 through...
Greek Cypriots Tear Down Wall Dividing City
Greek Cypriots demolished a wall Friday along the boundary that for decades has split Europe's last divided capital. The surprise demolition work began...
Five Ways the United Nations is Saving People and the Planet
In 1997, the owner of Cable News Network, Ted Turner, shocked the world when he handed over a billion dollars to the United Nations....
Encouraging Results in Iraqi Police Recruiting
(Aug 22) More than 500 Iraqi men have joined the police in Anbar province -- the most violent area of the Sunni Arab insurgency...
World’s First Anti-Suicide Bomber Dog
K9 magazine reports the electronics firm Samsung has trained, and donated to UK troops in Iraq, the world's first anti-suicide bomber dog. The three-year-old...
Nigeria Signs Accord with Cameroon Ending Border Dispute
The presidents of Nigeria and Cameroon today signed an agreement settling a decades-old, sometimes violent, border dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula following intensive...
Defying bombs, Baghdad school teaches music, ballet
Shiite and Sunni students travel side by side each day through dangerous territory to attend Baghdad's Music and Ballet school. The school building is...
Irish Peace Stabilized by IRA Disarming
The Good Friday Peace process in Northern Ireland was collapsing. David Trimble, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and was elected the first minister...
Breakthrough on Road to Irish Peace
On May 7, 2000 the Irish Republican Army made its most groundbreaking pledge since its cease-fire six years ago: to "put IRA arms beyond...