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“The Security Council today voiced support for the joint military operation launched by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Republic of Uganda and Southern Republic of the Sudan to flush out the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, a Senior United Nations envoy said.

The only radio station in an Islamist-controlled town in southern Republic of Somalia was shuttered by militants in a raid last week, according to the station’s director.

Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand, right, founder of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, allegedly suffered a heart attack on 17 December. Amnesty International believes Kabudvand is not receiving adequate medical care for his serious health condition in the Iranian Evin Prison.

“They are ghosts behind trees. You don’t see them until they come up behind you.” Sitting in the afternoon sun of a dusty courtyard in this overgrown African village, now Southern Sudan’s capital, a veteran humanitarian worker explained how the roughly 1,000 insurgents belonging to the Lord’s Resistance Army, right, – the LRA – continue to defy four states and keep millions in distress in east central Africa.

The fourth attempt of the For Freedom movement, headed by former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich, to register was crowned with success. On 17 December the organization received its registration certificate.

Чацвёртая спроба Руху “За свабоду” зарэгістравацца нарэшце ўвянчалася поспехам, і 17 снежня арганізацыя атрымала рэгістрацыйнае пасведчанне.

As protests and demonstrations move through the Russian Federation, in reaction to the current financial crisis, the Russian authorities respond by unlawfully detaining protesters and attempting to revise current criminal procedural laws under the pretext of anti-terrorism.

Ismet Bajramovic–Celo, right, a Sarajevo wartime commander and alleged mafia godfather, has been found dead in his apartment. Initial evidence suggests that he may have committed suicide.

The row with Greece, EU integration and challenges regarding the global economic crisis were the main topics, Macedonia’s President tackled in his annual address to Parliament.

Croatia’s Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has described Slovenia’s move to veto new talks for Zagreb to join the European Union as an action “without precedent.”

-Those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, those who are transgender, transsexual or intersex, are full and equal members of the human family and are entitled to be treated as such- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told high-level panel discussion on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Farzad Kamangar, right, was arrested by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence officials along with two other members of the Kurdish minority, Ali Heydariyan and Farhad Vakili, in Tehran around July 2006. The three men were sentenced to death on 25 February 2008 after being convicted of “moharebeh” (enmity towards God), a charge leveled against those accused of taking up arms against the state, in connection with their alleged membership of the armed group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).