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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has named his special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, as new head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Ban's office said Thursday on its website.
Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen described as "positive" Thursday a report on Serbia's cooperation with a UN war crimes tribunal, a key issue in Belgrade's bid for closer ties with the EU.
The United Nations briefly evacuated three basement levels after a fire alarm went off Thursday morning, forcing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and pop star Stevie Wonder to leave a conference room.
The United Nations on Thursday tapped genre-defying music icon Stevie Wonder to become a "Messenger for Peace," focusing on the battle for disabled rights.
A senior UN official said on Thursday the Copenhagen climate summit next week needed to take action against growing weather-related disasters linked to climate change.
A UNICEF spokeswoman retracted a statement that retired soccer star Zinedine Zidane will visit Gaza in March as a goodwill ambassador. The report originally appeared on the Israeli news Web site Ynet. Asked by telephone Thursday from Jerusalem to her office in Geneva, UNICEF spokeswoman Veronique Taveau said the report was true, and promised to send a news release.
Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder has a new title on his resume: United Nations Messenger of Peace.
The UN climate chief voiced optimism Wednesday that the upcoming Copenhagen summit will offer immediate aid for developing nations but urged rich states also to chart out long-term help.
Vienna, Dec 3 (AP) The world's poorest nations are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come, UN officials said today.
Serbia is cooperating with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia but the arrest of the fugitive former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is crucial, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday embraced the new U.S. plan for Afghanistan, calling it a balanced effort to achieve stability in the war-torn nation.
Traces of cocaine among the remains of a cargo plane recently discovered in West Africa suggest that large aircraft are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs and even weapons to the region, possibly benefiting terrorists, the U.N.'s anti-crime chief said Thursday.
(RTTNews) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's revised Afghan strategy, describing it a balanced effort aimed at promoting security and stability in the war-torn south-west Asian country.
Pop star Stevie Wonder had a hotter debut Thursday as a U.N. peace envoy than he expected.
( Christensen Fund ) More than 20 members of an indigenous peoples' delegation arriving in Copenhagen for UN climate change talks will publicly debut on Friday, Dec. 4 a series community-made videos documenting evidence and accounts of local climate change impacts.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A United Nations group seeking to outlaw nuclear-weapons tests set up a detection facility near the border between Iran and Turkmenistan that could register the shock waves of an atomic blast.
Students from the Healey School and other Boston-area middle schools gathered Nov. 21 at Northeastern University to simulate five United Nations meetings — the UN Security Council, UNICEF, Human Rights Council, DISEC, and the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. Middle school delegates debated topics including climate change, prisoner treatment, primary education, landmines, and the conflict ...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Wednesday it was facing an "unprecedented" budget deficit that could force it to cut back on services to more than 4.7 million people.
An un-Christmas book takes place at Christmastime, but its tone, story and subject matter have nothing to do with the season. It provides perfect cover when the Noël nags accuse you of being a holiday poop.
*Stevie Wonder has a new gig – the United Nations Messenger of Peace, designed to focus attention on helping the disabled.
The UN envoy for Somalia on Wednesday called on Japan and the international community to help bring the financial backers of Somali pirates to justice.
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