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Veterans/Armistice Day

It's Veterans' Day here in the United States, and Armistice Day in much of Europe. This is a day to remember the human toll of war on those who fight it even as, in the words of the UN charter, we seek to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind."

Anthrax scare at 3 diplomatic missions in NY

The Uzbek, Austrian and New York Missions to the United Nations received a package with suspicious white powder in the mail.  Local news outlet ABC 7 reports:

NRA push polling on UN arms trade treaty

A UN Dispatch reader in New Hampshire was at the receiveing end of a National Rifle Association push poll about the Obama administration's decision to join a treaty process at the UN to limit the sale of small arms to irresponsible end-users, like militias that use child soldiers.   From our man in the north country:

I just got a call from the National Rifle Association that was about "The outrageous united nations scheme to ban guns in America."

UN pulling staff from Afghanistan

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is re-locating about 600 international following last week's brazen attack on a UN compound which killed five international UN workers. From the UN News Center: