Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Latest News Nov 29, 2012 Support Mounting for Upgraded UN Status for Palestinians The U.N. General Assembly will decide Thursday whether to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority at the world body from an entity to a non-member state. The Palestinians chose this day for the vote because it is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. ... Read more... DRC Government Accuses M23 of Scores of Murders The Democratic Republic of Congo's government has accused the M23 rebels of murdering more than 60 people and wounding more than 200 since they captured the city of Goma last week. The United Nations says it can confirm there have been killings in Goma but cannot say who was responsible. ... Read more... Security Council extends sanctions on DR Congo rebels, condemns latest attacks by M23 The Security Council today extended the arms embargo and other sanctions imposed against armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while expressing its intention to consider additional targeted sanctions against the leadership of the M23, the rebel fighters that recently occupied the eastern provincial capital of Goma. ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Security Based on Trust, Not Fear Learn about the challenges of security in the cloud. Work Starts On New Chornobyl Shelter Workers have raised the first section of a structure that will eventually cover the exploded reactor at Ukraine's Chornobyl nuclear power station. Read more... Explosions in Damascus Kill At Least 34 Twin car bombs Wednesday ripped through a suburb of Syria's capital populated mostly by Christians and Druze, killing at least 34 people. Read more... Ivory Coast Has New Cabinet, Security Challenges Remain Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara flexed his political muscles last week when he reshuffled his Cabinet, but analysts say the president's influence over the security sector of the government remains limited. ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Security Based on Trust, Not Fear Learn about the challenges of security in the cloud. Afghan Clerics Want Power To Issue Legally Binding Fatwas Islamic clerics on Afghanistan's Ulema Council are the country's religious authorities, but their opinions on questions of Islamic law are treated as guideposts rather than legally binding decrees. ... Read more... Analysis: Hurdles to Nigerian government-Boko Haram dialogue Attempts by the Nigerian government and the Boko Haram militia to peacefully resolve a three-year-old insurgency by the Islamist group have thus far floundered, dashing hopes of an imminent end to the violence which has claimed hundreds of lives. ... Read more...