PRETORIA Mens Nike Air Force One High Supreme White Black Cheap , Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's executive capital Pretoria was turned blue on Saturday to commemorate the UN Day and the 70th anniversary of the organization.
Dressed in the UN blue, a group of students from schools in Pretoria, now named as Tshwane, joined staff members from the UN Information Center Pretoria and members of the public in a peaceful walk from the UN office to the Pretoria Technical High School where a variety of activities such as song, poems Nike Air Force One Low Leather White Online , dance and speeches, took place.
Speaking on behalf of the UN, Dr. Esther Muia paid tribute to the excellent support and cooperation between the global body and the South African government and lauded the achievements the government has made in attaining some Millennium Development Goals.
She said the occasion was an important time to reflect on what the world had attained under the UN umbrella in the last 70 years, take stock of lessons learned and forge ahead with great purpose.
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There were also songs and sketches from young girls from the Tshwane Home of Hope, a shelter for abused girls as well as statements from representatives of the City of Johannesburg who worked with the UN to light up the Mandela Bridge.
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"I am grateful our Member States are showing such strong enthusiasm in marking 70 years of UN support for peace, development and human rights," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"By turning the world UN Blue for a day, we can light the way to a better tomorrow," he said.
JINAN Nike Air Force One Low Supreme White Cheap , Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Paleontologists in east China's Shandong Province have named a new dinosaur species in the genus Leptoceratops after its unique hip bone.
The partial skeleton of Ischioceratops zhuchengensis, which lived during the Cretaceous Period, the last dinosaur era, was found in the world's largest dinosaur fossil field at Zhucheng, according to the local dinosaur research center
Leptoceratops are small Nike Air Force One Deconstruct PRM Mens Grey Online , herbivorous dinosaurs that walked on four legs but could probably stand or walk on their hind legs alone. The new species features a recurve bow-shaped ischium (back and lower part of the hip bone), which has an obturator process in the middle part and an axehead-shaped expansion at the distal end.
The discovery has been published in the U.S. journal PLOS ONE.
More than ten new dinosaur species have been discovered and named at Zhucheng.
LAGOS， April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government said Wednesday it has arrested another Boko Haram leader after capturing Khalid Al-Barnawi， suspected mastermind of the 2011 bombing of the United Nations (UN) building， early this month.
Preliminary investigations show Bello Danhajia， identified as a close associate and deputy of Al-Barnawi， was allegedly involved in gun-running， cattle rustling and other criminal activities， said Abdulalhai Garba， an official of the Department of State Services (DSS) to reporters in Abuja， the country's capital city， on Wednesday.
He said a prosecution will commence once the investigation is concluded.
Al-Barnawi was arrested by Nigeria's secret police on April 1 in the central northern city of Lokoja in Kogi State.
Garba said Al-Barnawi was known for recruiting young people into Boko Haram.
With Al-Barnawi's arrest， the DSS has achieved an "uncommon success" in the decimation of the group and its leadership， he added.
Both Al-Barnawi and Danhajia were believed to have plotted the bombing of the UN building in Abuja on Aug. 26， 2011， in which at least 23 people were killed and 70 injured. It was the first major bombing attack on an international organization in Nigeria.
The terrorist group Boko Haram， which has so far killed thousands of people in Nigeria， has claimed the attack.
LONDON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Sam Kendricks of the United Statesclaimed the title of men's pole vault at the World AthleticsChampionships here on Tuesday.
Kendricks, who won bronze in the 2016 Rio Olympics, cleared 5.95meters for the gold. Poland's Piotr Lisek took silver with 5.89 andworld record holder Renaud Lavillenie of France won bronze.
China's Xue Changrui Nike Air Force One Low PRM Mens Black For Sale , who was sixth in Rio, finished fourth with5.82, breaking the national record of 5.81 he set early last year.This was the best result Chinese athlete achieved in this event atWorld Championships or Olympic Games. Enditem
SEOUL -- South Korea offered to hold talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the management of an inter- Korean economic zone, including the ongoing row over a wage hike for DPRK workers, the Unification Ministry said Monday.
Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol told a press briefing that Seoul proposed via the secretariat of the north- south joint committee for the management of the Kaesong industrial complex Friday to hold the sixth round of the committee meeting on May 20. (S.Korea-DPRK-Talks)
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