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Scenes from the UN General Assembly

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By Lindsay Beyerstein A mysterious pro-Qadhafi group outside the United Nations in Manhattan. Col. Qadhafi delivered a bizarre 90-minute address to the General Assembly today. He touched on various themes including a protracted prison rape analogy, a theory about the next big thing in man-made influenza ("fish flu," you heard it here first), and a … Read more

Live from the UN Summit on Climate Change

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By Lindsay Beyerstein I'm posting from the UN Summit on Climate Change at UN HQ in New York. I'm wearing one of those special plastic translation earpieces. World leaders are here to talk face-to-face before the big climate negotiations to be held in Copenhagen in December. President Obama is scheduled to address this morning's opening … Read more