The Role of Satellite observation in the Lebanese Crisis

The Role of Satellite observation in the Lebanese Crisis Francesco Pisano, UNITAR/UNOSAT UNITAR was involved in the recent Middle East crisis through its operational satellite applications programme UNOSAT. Immediately after the beginning of hostilities, in July 2006, UNOSAT received requests for satellite imagery of the areas of Lebanon affected by the crisis. These requests came...

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Meanwhile: How Tom Luke said ’never again’ By Shashi Tharoor

Whenever I think of Auschwitz - or Birkenau, or Mauthausen, or Theresien stadt, the names that, in this season of Holocaust remembrance, are coming back to haunt us from 60 years ago - I think of a retired Australian United Nations official called Tom Luke. Tom wasn’t born Australian, and he wasn’t born Tom Luke....

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