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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 12:10 pm ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 5:07 pm ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 10:54 am ET
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.
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Nasdaq - 34 minutes ago
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 2:50 pm ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 6:40 am ET
UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Thursday he was "disappointed" by Iran's lack of response to a compromise nuclear fuel deal.
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INDOlink - 1 hour 18 minutes ago
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 6:52 pm ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 7:32 am ET
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.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 10:35 am ET
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.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 8:00 am ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 8:15 am ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 11:16 pm ET
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.
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Nasdaq - 1 hour 4 minutes ago
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.
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Fox News - Thu Nov 26, 9:25 am ET
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.
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INO News - Thu Nov 26, 4:25 pm ET
(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.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Thu Nov 26, 5:04 pm ET
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.
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INO News - Thu Nov 26, 8:25 am ET
(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.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 26 minutes ago
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 12:10 pm ET
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.