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UN chief Ban Ki-moon and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are to fire early shots in a global climate debate to start in earnest next month by dominating a Commonwealth summit opening in Trinidad on Friday.
Five people were injured on Thursday aboard a United Nations helicopter when it came under fire in DR Congo in a northwestern region where tribal violence has claimed 100 lives, a UN source said.
A UN commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed met the country's prime minister and members of the ruling military junta on Thursday.
The outgoing head of the UN's atomic watchdog expressed "disappointment" Thursday over Iran and said efforts to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear drive had reached a dead end.
MANILA (AFP)--A gunman shot dead a local UN Children's Fund worker in a lawless part of the southern Philippines near the site of a political massacre earlier this week, police said here Friday.
Military-ruled Myanmar's rebel ethnic groups are increasingly cashing in their illegal drugs hordes on expectations of a junta crackdown, a UN expert said Thursday.
UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Thursday he was "disappointed" by Iran's lack of response to a compromise nuclear fuel deal.
Port of Spain, Nov 26 (AFP) UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to lead a charge in a Commonwealth summit starting tomorrow toward a global climate deal that will be discussed in Copenhagen in two weeks' time.
The three members of a UN commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed arrived on Wednesday to pursue their investigation.
A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in this West African nation to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Russia urged Iran to cooperate with the international community as the United Nations’ atomic agency warned it had hit a “dead end” over whether the Islamic republic is developing a nuclear weapon.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Mohamed ElBaradei , the head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, said his agency has reached a “dead end” in its ability to determine whether Iran is concealing work on a nuclear-weapons capability.
Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have thwarted UN-led attempts to disarm them militarily and global action is needed to cut off their financing, UN experts say.
One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries, including the United States and some in Europe, a United Nations report said.
MANILA (AFP)--An unknown gunman has shot a local U.N. Children's Fund worker in a lawless part of the southern Philippines close to where a political massacre occurred, the aid agency said here Friday.
A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in Guinea to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight.
(RTTNews) - At least five people were wounded when a UN helicopter came under fire from militants in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, said officials on Thursday.
TORONTO - Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.
(RTTNews) - Outgoing chief of the UN nuclear watchdog said Iran was not cooperating with his agency in uncovering the truth about that country's dubious nuclear weapons program.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may improve chances for a global climate agreement at negotiations next month in Copenhagen.
The UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in China and the government must do more to reach out to civil society and work with vulnerable groups such as homosexuals.
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