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CBHagman

(17,330 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 11:44 PM Jun 2013

Obama taps Irish immigrant for United Nations ambassador. [View all]

Samantha Power, founder of a human rights center and award-winning author of a book on the problem of genocide, has been announced as the president's nominee to succeed Susan Rice as U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations.

It so happens that she's also Irish-born. Read on:

[url]http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-woman-Samantha-Power-to-be-named-as-US-Ambassador-to-UN-by-President-Obama--210225621.html[/url]

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