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UN chief to visit China, Mongolia

AFP - Mon Jul 20, 4:05 pm ET

UN chief Ban Ki-moon will depart Wednesday for successive visits to China and Mongolia where he will highlight the theme of climate change, his press office said Monday.

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Women, refugees at heart of UN report on Arab states
AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 57 minutes ago
Arab states must take measures to combat an expanding list of issues including rising populations, trafficking, unemployment and water scarcity, a UN-sponsored report said on Tuesday.
Former Ghana president named UN WFP ambassador
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 2:04 pm ET
Former Ghanaian president John Kufuor was named on Monday as a global ambassador against hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme.
Sudan files UN complaint over Chad 'air raid'
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 6:28 am ET
Sudan has lodged a complaint against Chad with the UN Security Council, after accusing its neighbour of bombing targets in Darfur last week, state media reported on Monday.
UN chief to visit China, Mongolia - climate change on agenda
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Jul 20, 1:28 pm ET
New York - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit China and Mongolia this week for talks on climate change and other global issues, a UN spokeswoman said Monday. Ban will be in Beijing on Friday to meet with President Hu Jin-tao and ...
Somalia's Islamists ban UN agencies operations
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 7:52 am ET
Somalia's hardline Shebab militia said Monday they had banned the activities of three UN organisations in the country considered "enemies of Islam and Muslisms."
Israel protests UN failure to stop border crossing
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Jul 20, 5:13 pm ET
New York - Israel on Monday protested United Nations inaction to stop 15 Hezbollah and Lebanese civilians who allegedly entered Israeli territory and planted flags last week. Isaeli UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said in a letter to UN Secretary Gener...
Armed rebels demand end to UN work in Somalia
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Jul 20, 2:58 pm ET
New York - The Somali armed rebel group, Al Shabaab, looted two United Nations compounds and demanded an end to UN relief work in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation, the UN said Monday. Al Shabaab, which has been trying to overthrow the transitio...
UN chief recommends extension of mission in Nepal
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Jul 18, 2:40 pm ET
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recommended in a report released Saturday that the UN's special mission to Nepal be extended for another six months.
Militants raid UN compounds, ban 3 relief agencies
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 2:00 pm ET
Islamic insurgents with alleged links with al-Qaida looted two United Nations compounds in southern Somalia on Monday, and announced they will ban three U.N. agencies from operating in areas the militants control.
Top UN climate expert faults G-8 goal without deed
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 7:00 pm ET
The chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Monday that the Group of Eight nations had "clearly ignored" taking any concrete action to accomplish its new goal of limiting climate change.
UN Court Gives Bosnia Serb Leader Life for War Crimes (Update1)
Bloomberg - Mon Jul 20, 12:10 pm ET
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- UN judges today sentenced Milan Lukic, a leader of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary group, to life in prison for war crimes including burning alive 119 Bosnian Muslim civilians in the town of Visegrad in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
UN Court Gives Life Sentence to Milan Lukic for War Crimes
Bloomberg - Mon Jul 20, 10:56 am ET
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- UN judges today sentenced Milan Lukic, a leader of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary group, to life in prison for war crimes including burning alive Bosnian Muslim civilians in the city of Visegrad in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
The world’s only UN mission with no human rights bureau
Foreign Policy Blogs - Mon Jul 20, 12:02 pm ET
A row of Moroccan flags firmly embedded in a concrete wall too tall to scale, align a compound that has no political will and surround a United Nations mission that has no human rights bureau. Minurso, the UN Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara, is a sad spectacle where the single blue flag [...]
Somali Militant Group 'bans' UN Agencies
INO News - Mon Jul 20, 1:40 pm ET
(RTTNews) - Somalia's militant al Shabaab group said it would ban three UN agencies operating in the country, branding them "enemies of Islam and Muslims."
UN Chief Alarmed By Darfur Violence, Chad-Sudan Tension
Nasdaq - Mon Jul 20, 8:25 pm ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned about rising violence in Sudan's West Darfur state and reports of bombings that threatened to escalate tensions between Sudan and Chad, his press office said Monday.
UN chief pays tribute to Mandela on his 91st birthday
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Jul 17, 9:44 pm ET
UN chief Ban Ki-moon marked the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela by hailing the South African statesman as "a living embodiment of the highest values of the United Nations."
UN Chief Faces Criticism Halfway Through First Term
Nasdaq - Mon Jul 20, 4:24 am ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--His critics berate him as ineffective, uninspiring and a poor communicator, but members of U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's entourage say he is getting a raw deal from people who misunderstand him and his mission.
UN war crimes court convicts Bosnian Serb cousins in burning deaths of scores of Muslims
MyMotherLode.com - Mon Jul 20, 10:40 am ET
UN war crimes court convicts Bosnian Serb cousins in burning deaths of scores of Muslims.
Israel urges Lebanon and UN peacekeepers to prevent violations of its territory
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
UNITED NATIONS - Israel urged the Lebanese government and U.N. peacekeepers on Monday to prevent Hezbollah militants and their supporters from violating its territory and jeopardizing the fragile stability along the border.
14 UN peacekeepers injured in Lebanon protest
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Jul 18, 3:39 pm ET
Fourteen UN peacekeepers were injured in south Lebanon on Saturday when protesters tried to stop an investigation into an arms cache that exploded in a Hezbollah stronghold last week, a spokeswoman said.

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