David Miliband
Polycrisis due to abuse of power
"I'm an Englishman in New York," says David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary (2007-2010) who since 2013 has lived in New York, working as the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). An organization founded at the call of Albert Einstein in 1933, the IRC is helping communities and people in more than 40 countries to cope with humanitarian crises.
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The Balkans and the USA in the same sentence; A war scenario approaching?
According to Sputnik, the United States is facing a crisis of that kind for the first time, so the fate of their society is uncertain. It is only certain that it will largely depend on the new internal force of that country - "trampism", the portal Kosovo online reported.
Aid to 4m Syrians threatened by UN deadlock
Aid deliveries to millions of Syrian civilians were hanging in the balance on Jan. 9 ahead of the expiration of a United Nations mandate authorizing cross-border humanitarian convoys from Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
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Five Million Children Risk Famine in War-torn Yemen
AFP - More than five million children are threatened by famine in war-torn Yemen as prices soar, a charity said Wednesday, warning an entire generation may face death and "starvation on an unprecedented scale".
EU and the UK will survive Brexit
The decision of the British people on June 23, 2016 to leave the European Union is still a matter of discussion within the United Kingdom.
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Istanbul exceeds Europe in Syrian refugees, aid agency head says
There are currently more Syrian refugees in Istanbul than in all the rest of Europe and nearly 60 percent of refugees are living in cities today, the head of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said on Oct. 26.
IRC head David Miliband told The Associated Press in an interview that "the iconic image" of a refugee being someone in a camp has changed.
Exit poll shows Cameron re-election in UK
The Telegraph gave David Cameron an exit poll lead minutes after the polls closes in Britain, with projections showing the Tories just short of a number of elected MPs to form a majority government. Cameron and his conservatives are set to win 316 seats, up nine from their 2010 total.
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