Then there are the alarming human rights violations.

Ninety more people were wounded in that horrendous attack alone.

Everyone listens half awake for the dreaded knock on the door.

A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export led economy.

The current stimulus and bailout plans were hatched in reaction to that dreadful week.

Gut wrenching images of unspeakable, indiscriminate violence against civilians have shocked the world.

There was no global hashtag movement on Twitter condemning the dreadful incident.

(Reportedly, there were a few other such cases of outright murder.)

While to many victims of this horrific violence and suffering never asked for their lives and those of their families to be so disrupted.

At the same time, however, he has failed to close the grotesque US prison at Guantánamo Bay.

In the wake of such dreadful devastation, the international community displayed a sense of solidarity that fills us with justifiable pride.

Finally, speaking within the context of developing countries, we wish to emphasize the alarming reality of youth unemployment.

The zones of production and distribution tend to lie in the developing world, and they are often threatened by appalling violence and bloodshed.

It is horrifying that most Ethiopians have not shown an interest in returning home despite risk of violence.

It has proven to be a lethal combination. Roughly 1.5 million of North Korea s 23 million people are estimated to have starved to death over the past decade.

Pakistan s macabre association with the Taliban stems mostly from its constant effort to pressure its mortal enemy, India.

It is therefore incumbent upon us that we honour the promises that, 60 years ago in the rubble of the most appalling conflict, gave rise to hope among the peoples of the world.

Of course, claims and counter claims have been swirling in the aftermath of the appalling chemical weapons attack on a rebel controlled area east of Damascus.

Quick impact economic development is exactly what is needed now to help end the horrific violence and suffering in Darfur.

It was appalling and deeply saddening that United Nations peacekeepers and staff continued to commit such deplorable acts.

The crisis has not yet manifested itself to most citizens of the West in the appalling, ground shaking way of 1929.

The 2008 recession is not the only reason for this staggering figure long term political and policy choices are also to blame.

But, despite the grim parallel, Japan s government does not seem to think that it needs to take the problem seriously.

We, the residents of Khodjaly, met with profound grief the awful act of terrorism committed on 11 September 2001, which resulted in thousands of casualties.

What s worse, the way such people then act tends to edge us closer to Huntington s nightmare scenario.

Male life expectancy is now less than 60 years, owing to alcoholism, crime, drugs, disease, and a dreadful public health system.

Ironically, however, such a grim prospect would not mean the end of globalization, defined as the increase in worldwide networks of interdependence.

In Libya, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi s appalling tyranny has collapsed the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.

First, the economic damage from Japan s three calamities (a horrifying earthquake, a devastating tsunami, and a nuclear crisis) may well be double that of Kobe.

The Council unreservedly endorses the constructive and crucial role that the African Union continues to play in the efforts of the international community to put an end to the terrible conflict in Darfur.

The horrific collapse in the labor market has given way to consistent monthly employment gains, albeit less than what is needed for a full recovery.

The United States was quick to accuse others, but silent on its own appalling human rights record, which included such acts as occupying an independent State and massacring its civilians.

Fourth, the addition of destabilizing nuclear uncertainty to the terrible impact of the natural disasters amplifies the reconstruction challenges. Given the damage and dangers, it will take time for Japan to restore fully its power generation capabilities, affecting the potential GDP growth rate.

It may seem appalling to expect such a highly indebted country to continue to run deficits but the world is willing to finance the US at negative real interest rates.

But Sweden s freedom of expression was also one of the motives behind a grisly suicide attack in Stockholm in December of last year.

Orwell s witnessing of the horrors of imperial rule, the murderous absurdity that it entails, the level of human raw feelings of injustice that invariably transform into hatred, still holds to this day.

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9 11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours, and the perception was through the polarization of that terrible event.

A new documentary, When Muppets Dream of Peace, tracks the harrowing joint production of Sesame Street in Israel and Palestine, with a Jordanian production team brought in to help facilitate.

Our current global economy, however, is not sustainable, with more than one billion people left behind by economic progress and the earth s environment suffering terrible damage from human activity.

Unfortunately, the Japanese government, despite much circumstantial and even documentary evidence supplied by Japanese historians, now chooses to deny the wartime regime s responsibility for this ghastly project.

Should they risk buying a new car when gasoline prices might soar again? Will they be able to put food on the table after this year s terrifying rise in food prices?

Signs of the American economy s perilous condition are everywhere from yawning fiscal and current account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar.

Hayashi and Sakakibara indeed, most Japanese economists more or less agree on the fundamental reason for such spectacular stagnation the Japanese have stopped working hard.

The great gift of secularism, in turn, has been tolerance. Despite horrific twentieth century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.

I've traveled, as I said, to many, many countries, and I've seen, if we do what we do to the girl inside us then obviously it's horrific to think what we do to girls in the world.