UNITED NATIONS – Colombia's government on Wednesday submitted the peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla group to the U.N. Security Council.
The agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, "is a contribution to world peace," President Juan Manuel Santos said.
Santos submitted the document to the Security Council's president in the presence of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who confirmed that he would travel to Cartagena next week for the signing of the peace agreement.
"Here is the product of this work in which we all helped, and it is a contribution to world peace," Santos said during the ceremony, which took place ahead of a Security Council session to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
Schools in Winnipeg also received a threat but the city's police service said they believed the threat was "unfounded".
It is unclear whether the events are linked.
Last year, 640,000 students were kept away from school after a threat was sent in by email. In New York City, officials received a similar threat but said it was so "outlandish" they ignored it.
It was Pitt's second marriage, having previously wed Friends star Jennifer Aniston, and Jolie's third after Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.
According to US entertainment website TMZ, Jolie cited "irreconcilable differences" in the divorce papers and listed the date of separation of 15 September.
It is understood she is asking for physical custody of the couple's six children and is asking the judge to give Pitt visitation rights.
A copy of the papers was filed at Los Angeles Superior Court / Reuters
The couple have six children together - Maddox, Pax, Zahara, who are adopted, and biological children Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Pitt, 52, and Jolie, 41, married privately in the French hamlet of Correns in Provence in 2014.
Their children served as ring bearers at the wedding and helped illustrate Jolie's white dress with their drawings.
Marriage 'issues'
Jolie is well known for her charity work - she served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency for 11 years before becoming a Special Envoy in April 2012.
In 2013, she announced she had undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer.
Last year, ahead of the release of By The Sea, the romantic drama the couple both star in, Jolie told The Telegraph: "Brad and I have our issues.
"We have fights and problems like any other couple. We have days when we drive each other absolutely mad and want space, but the problems in the movie aren't our specific problems."
Jolie will reportedly be represented by lawyer Laura Wasser, whose previous clients include Johnny Depp, Kim Kardashian, Stevie Wonder and Britney Spears.
Pitt and Jolie: A history
Archive: Brad and Angelina on marriage
Jolie and Pitt - nicknamed "Brangelina" by fans - are one of the best-known couples in Hollywood.
They got together after meeting on the set of the film Mr & Mrs Smith, which was released in 2005.
Jolie, who is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand, rose to fame with roles in films such as The Bone Collector and Girl, Interrupted, for which she won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1999.
She starred as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider film series and went on to appear in Changeling, Salt, A Mighty Heart, Wanted and Maleficent. She also directed World War Two prisoner of war film Unbroken.
Pitt's early acting roles include appearing alongside Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise.
He went on to appear in films including Fight Club, Ocean's Eleven, World War Z, Snatch and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His producing work includes 12 Years A Slave, which won a best picture Oscar in 2014 and The Big Short, in which he also acted.
Pitt and Jolie most recently worked together on 2015 film By The Sea - a relationship drama written, directed and produced by Jolie. It focused on a couple trying to repair their marriage while staying at a French hotel.
UN General Assembly hall with speaker Mogens Lykketoft, President of the Assembly’s seventieth session
The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach.
This is the first time the General Assembly has called for a summit at the Heads of State and Government level on large movements of refugees and migrants and it is a historic opportunity to come up with a blueprint for a better international response. It is a watershed moment to strengthen governance of international migration and a unique opportunity for creating a more responsible, predictable system for responding to large movements of refugees and migrants.
When and where?
The Summit is an all day event on Monday 19 September 2016 at the UNHQ in New York.
In January 2016, the Secretary-General appointed a Special Adviser, Karen AbuZayd, to work with United Nations entities and undertake consultations with Member States and other relevant stakeholders in the lead up to the Summit. This will include overseeing the Secretary-General’s report on large movements of refugees and migrants, to be submitted to the General Assembly in May 2016.
In February 2016, the President of the General Assembly appointed H.E. Mrs. Dina Kawar, Permanent Representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and H.E. Mr. David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland as co-facilitators to lead open, transparent and inclusive consultations with Member States to finalise the organisational arrangements, including on a possible outcome, for the High level summit in September.
The Summit will be attended by heads of state and government, Ministers, and leaders from the UN System, civil society, private sector, international organizations, academia, and beyond in alignment with the General Assembly resolution establishing the summit’s modalities. Find out about registering for the Summit.
But there will be many more people who will be following the Summit through the Internet, social media, and a myriad of related events taking place around the world. The Summit will also be webcast live on webtv.un.org. Find out about media access to the Summit.
Is there a related event on 20 September 2016?
Also on the margins of the General Assembly, on 20 September 2016, the United States President Obama is hosting the Leaders' Summit on Refugees, alongside co-hosts Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan, Mexico and Sweden, which will appeal to governments to pledge significant new commitments on refugees. While the Leaders' Summit will focus on refugees, not migrants, the General Assembly High-Level Summit will address large movements of both. The two events will complement one another.
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 46th annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, September 17, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. society is uncomfortable with powerful women and that is why the United States has not yet elected a woman president, President Barack Obama said on Sunday.
Obama, who is eager to see fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton succeed him in office, told a fundraiser for her in New York that the election between his former secretary of state and Republican businessman Donald Trump should not be close.
However, political polarization in the country would make it tight, he said.
The first African-American U.S. president then told the group of donors why he thought a woman had never held the office.
"There's a reason why we haven't had a woman president," he said. "We as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women. And it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly. And that expresses itself in all sorts of ways."
Obama has often spoken about the role of strong women in his life, including his mother, grandmother, wife and daughters.
Polls have tightened between Clinton, a former U.S. senator and first lady, and Trump, a real-estate tycoon.
"This should not be a close election, but it will be," Obama said. "And the reason it will be is not because of Hillary's flaws, but rather because, structurally, we've become a very polarized society," he said.
The president has not hidden his disdain for Trump, who was one of the leaders of the movement that questioned whether Obama was born in the United States. Trump conceded on Friday that Obama was U.S. born.
Obama told the donors that Trump was unlike the two candidates he faced in the 2008 and 2012 general elections.
"When I ran against John McCain, we had deep differences, but I couldn't say that he was not qualified to be president of the United States," Obama said of his 2008 opponent.
"I couldn't say that electing Mitt Romney would be an unmitigated disaster. This guy (Trump) is not qualified to be president."
Hillary Clinton at a rally in Tampa, Fla., early this month, and Donald J. Trump at a campaign event in Clive, Iowa, on Tuesday.Credit
Left, Doug Mills/The New York Times; Damon Winter/ The New York Times
With less than eight weeks before Election Day, Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton
are locked in a tight contest, with both candidates still struggling to
win the confidence of their respective bases, the latest New York
Times/CBS News poll finds.
Mrs.
Clinton, the Democratic nominee, has the support of 46 percent of
likely voters nationwide, to 44 percent for Mr. Trump, the Republican,
including those who said they were leaning toward a candidate. Looking
more broadly at all registered voters, Mrs. Clinton holds a wider edge,
46 to 41 percent.
In a four-way race, Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton are tied at 42 percent each. Gary Johnson,
the Libertarian candidate, has the support of 8 percent of likely
voters, and the Green Party nominee, Jill Stein, takes 4 percent.
The
third-party candidates draw their strongest support from younger
voters. Twenty-six percent of voters ages 18 to 29 say they plan to vote
for Mr. Johnson, and another 10 percent back Ms. Stein. A little more
than one in five political independents say they will vote for one of
the third-party candidates.
Discontent
with the major party candidates is widespread. Among those who say they
intend to vote for Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton, slightly more than half
express strong support. The rest say that they harbor reservations about
their candidate, or that they are simply voting to thwart the other
nominee.
Over
all, just 43 percent of likely voters describe themselves as very
enthusiastic about casting a ballot in November. Fifty-one percent of
Mr. Trump’s supporters say they are very enthusiastic about voting; 43
percent of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters say they are very enthusiastic.
The
race has clearly grown tighter in recent weeks. National polling
averages show that Mrs. Clinton’s margin over Mr. Trump has narrowed
from eight points in early August to two points today.
Mrs.
Clinton found herself under attack last week for suggesting that half
of Mr. Trump’s supporters held views that made them “deplorables,” and
for her campaign’s attempts to conceal her pneumonia diagnosis. The
Times/CBS News poll was conducted from Sept. 9 to 13, so many of those
interviewed were aware of the controversies.
Mr.
Trump hired new campaign leadership in mid-August and has been more
disciplined in his public statements. His poll numbers have been
steadily rising.
Mrs.
Clinton continues to outpace Mr. Trump among women, nonwhites and
younger voters, while Mr. Trump leads among whites, 57 to 33 percent.
Among white women, the candidates are virtually tied: 46 percent for Mrs. Clinton and 45 percent for Mr. Trump.
Mrs.
Clinton’s support is notably strong among college graduates,
particularly whites. She leads by 11 points among white likely voters
with a college degree; if polling holds, she would be the first Democrat
in 60 years to win among this group.
This
is the first Times/CBS News poll of the election cycle to include a
measure of likely voters. The nationwide telephone survey reached 1,433
registered voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus
three percentage points. To achieve a sample that reflected the probable
electorate, these voters were weighted by their responses to questions
about voting history, attention to the campaign and likelihood of
voting.
With
Mrs. Clinton sidelined by illness this week, Mr. Trump has vigorously
pressed his case. He promoted a new plan to support working parents on
Tuesday, and released a partial account of his medical status on
Wednesday during a taping of “The Dr. Oz Show.”
Poll
participants expressed ambivalence about the need for more information
on the candidates’ medical histories. For each candidate, just 45
percent of registered voters said they wanted to see more medical
records released. (Questions about Mr. Trump’s and Mrs. Clinton’s
medical records were asked starting on Sunday afternoon, after news
broke that Mrs. Clinton fell ill at a ceremony commemorating the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks.)
Mr.
Johnson’s showing of 8 percent support in this poll will make it
difficult for him to qualify for the first presidential debate, on Sept.
26. Under the rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a
candidate must reach an average of 15 percent support in five major news
media polls, including the Times/CBS News poll. Another poll included
in the average used by the commission, the Washington Post/ABC News
poll, had Mr. Johnson at 9 percent support last week.
Megan Thee-Brenan and Dalia Sussman contributed reporting.
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