The UN motion was passed on Tuesday night, with the support of the US, but a number of security council members condemned Russia's stance.
Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.
Human Rights Watch has documented 75 cases of torture in security force custody since the end of the war, including the rape of men and women.
And, because it nominally funds Social Security and Medicare, some liberals regard its continuance as essential to the survival of those programs.
In a letter handed out by activists to managers at each Shell station, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, wrote: "28 activists and two journalists remain in detention after the seizure of our ship Arctic Sunrise by armed Russian Federal Security Bureau agents.
In the letter, Bachmann wondered how Abedin was not disqualified for a US security clearance "given what we know from the international media about Abedin's documented family connections with the extremist Muslim Brotherhood".
The project, according to Shell, is "critical to Malaysia's long-term energy security".
According to the sculptor, Blind Light, as the installation was called, undermined what architecture ought to do: "Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are.
For its part, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) says that paying the UKHCA's £15.74 would cost an extra £342m a year in England, "which would require us to make very serious further cuts in parts of the adult social care service".
But Fox's pledge to maintain Britain's ability to wage war unilaterally, cooperate with France while snubbing the EU's defence agency, cutting Whitehall staff and reforming wasteful procurement (again) does not sound like tough realism, especially when combined with Cameron's gimmicky "war cabinet" and national security adviser approach.
Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is to chair the first in a series of meetings that will include national MPs, government figures and regional officials in line with proposals drafted by the OSCE – a transatlantic security and rights group that includes Russia and the US.
