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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to attend a summit of French-speaking nations in Quebec City, Canada, next week to highlight the strong ties between the United Nations and the francophone world, his press office said Friday.
UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--The UN General Assembly voted Wednesday to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to rule on whether Kosovo's unilateral secession from Serbia is "in accordance with international law."
Smugglers forced more than 130 people overboard on a boat carrying migrants from Somalia to Yemen, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--The Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the UN mission in Georgia for four months ahead of next week's international talks on the fallout of the recent Caucasus conflict.
The UN refugee agency says 100 migrants are feared drowned after being forced overboard by smugglers in the Gulf of Aden.
Rebel forces withdrew from an army base in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after having taken it in fierce fighting, the UN mission in the troubled country said Friday as the president called for a mass offensive against the rebels.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will take part in talks next week in Geneva to try to settle the Russia-Georgia conflict and determine the future role of the UN in the Caucasus, a UN spokeswoman said Friday. Ban will join representatives ...
(RTTNews) - The UN General Assembly decided to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal validity of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence.
New York - The UN Security Council on Thursday extended its former UN military observer mission in Georgia for just four months rather than a longer period because of the unsettled Russian-Georgian conflict in that country in August. The mission's ne...
Moscow on Thursday accused NATO and the United Nations of secretly forging an agreement that tightens their cooperation without informing Russia, a U.N. Security Council member whose relations with NATO are badly strained.
New York- The flare-up in fighting along the border areas between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo may provoke a wider conflict in the region, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday. The continued fighting between Congo's armed f...
About 100 people have been reported missing in the Gulf of Aden after being forced overboard by smugglers on their way to Yemen from war-torn Somalia, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.
Belgrade - Serbia's latest slap came from the Nobel peace prize committee Friday, ending a week in which Belgrade declared a rare diplomatic triumph in its quest to keep Kosovo. Only on Wednesday, Serbia hailed the UN General Assembly decision to bac...
PARIS, Oct 10, 2008 (AFP) - France called Friday on UN observers in Georgia to deploy in the Kodori Gorge, a strategic strip of land in breakaway Abkhazia where Russian forces drove out Georgian troops during recent fighting.
Convertir una sencilla actividad como lavarse las manos con jabón en un hábito arraigado en los niños reduciría a la mitad las muertes infantiles por diarrea, afirmó el viernes la Unicef exhortando a los países a celebrar el 15 de octubre el Primer día Mundial del Lavado de Manos.
The UN food agency on Thursday made an urgent appeal for 140 million dollars (102 million euros) in food aid for more than five million Zimbabweans facing severe hunger.
The U.N. General Assembly has voted to ask the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on whether Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia earlier this year conforms to international law. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations' assessment of carbon-reduction projects seeking emission credits will likely concentrate more on revisiting existing projects than on evaluating new ventures at a meeting this month.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution urging states to deploy naval vessels and military aircraft to actively join the fight against rampant piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia.
Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. , a leading provider of near-patient diagnostics, monitoring and health management solutions, met yesterday with Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as part of a group of senior executives of seventeen of the world's leading research-based and generic pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies.
The sharply divided vote will allow the International Court of Justice to examine the manner in which Kosovo declared its independence.
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