The United Nations and its partners today increased their humanitarian appeal for Syria from $180 million to $347 million, due to the doubling of the number of people in need since July, to 2.5 million.

The revised Syria Humanitarian Response Plan focuses on the priority areas of health, food, livelihoods, infrastructure rehabilitation, community services, education and shelter, in Homs, Hama, Idlib, Damascus, rural Damascus, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo, as well as areas hosting large numbers of internally displaced people.

PRESIDENT OBAMA. Rallying Cry For Voters
The president accepts the Democratic renomination and seeks to recapture the confidence of US voters who continue to face economic hardships.

MITT ROMNEY CAMPAIGN. Criticized For ‘Neocon’ Foreign Policy.
Democratic party leadership on foreign policy matters is reviving memories of George W. Bush and his costly invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

TURKEY TURNS. Waking Up It's Neighbors.
Months after Ankara set out a more assertive role in the Middle East, it now appears to be importing instability from nearby countries.

NYC Council Member James Vacca, Chair of the Transportation Committee, today held a hearing to discuss a package of legislation designed to strengthen enforcement, enhance education, and improve safety among the city’s commercial cycling sector. The bills, which have the support of a diverse coalition of advocacy groups, are intended to address problems in the commercial cycling industry from two sides of the same coin.

A timely and decisive response is vital in the face of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, top United Nations officials have stressed, highlighting the need to act when a State fails to protect its own people.

“This is the ultimate test of the responsibility to protect,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to an informal interactive dialogue of the General Assembly on the principle agreed at a summit of world leaders in 2005.

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BILL CLINTON CHAMPIONS OBAMA. Democrat Convention Spotlight.
Former president Clinton got the crowds excited as he nominated a man who is cool on the outside but who burns for America on the inside. Meanwhile, God and Jerusalem are reinstated, after Obama intervenes to order these changes.

COURT APPROVES ARIZONA POLICY. 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS'.
This follows a similar U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the immigration law, and it's expected to go into effect soon.

BUBONIC PLAGUE PREVENTION. Stay Healthy and Safe.

POOR ECONOMIC NEWS. Bad Timing for Obama/Democrats.
Disappointing figures on US manufacturing growth make it highly unlikely that the jobless rate will fall before November’s presidential election. Meanwhile Democrats seek to reinforce coalition by juggling the demands of a diverse group contains dangers for Barack Obama, as policies tailored for members may chip away at support elsewhere

EYES ON EUROPEAN UNION ACTIONS. Draghi Bond + More.