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The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must offer a target and financing.
A senior Obama administration official lamented Monday that Capitol Hill has been dominated by the healthcare debate. Read more...
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
The Sri Lankan government has failed to make adequate welfare provision for the 136,000 Tamil civilians it plans to release from internment camps, rights activists and opposition parties said Sunday.
With the African island nation left paralyzed and lawless after a coup, loggers have been clearing forests, putting many rare species of lemurs and other animals at further risk. She was the spy who was undone by a furry little creature with huge, hypnotic eyes.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The International Energy Agency is “cautiously optimistic” about the climate-change summit next month in Copenhagen, where almost 200 nations are working to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol to slow carbon emissions.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose from a one-week low on speculation demand will increase as the global economy recovers from its worst recession since World War II.
>Baha'i World News Service > http://news.bahai.org >For more information, contact: news@bahai.orgmailto:news@bahai.org UN resolution on Iran sends a powerful message on human rights UNITED NATIONS, 20 November (BWNS) - The approval today of a strongly worde d resolution on human rights in Iran sends a powerful signal to the Iranian government ...
Washington, 20 November (WashingtonTV)—The United Nations on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which it says has transformed the way children are treated.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Iranian government’s treatment of protesters following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , including torture and arbitrary imprisonment, was censured today by the United Nations General Assembly.
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
Denmark: 65 world leaders _ and counting _ to attend UN climate summit in Copenhagen
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will also go to the summit, Michael Helbo , a spokesman for Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen , said today by phone. More leaders will confirm their attendance, Helbo said.
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Countries most vulnerable to climate change said Friday they were incensed that rich nations were rethinking the timetable for concluding a global treaty that would hold them to legally binding targets for cutting emissions.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- A UN human rights resolution against North Korea adopted this week is “nothing but a trite political plot,” the communist nation’s state-run media said yesterday, citing a foreign ministry spokesman it didn’t identify.
Brazil’s decision to host Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was viewed as a signal of the country’s ambitions to become a bigger player in global diplomacy.
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