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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.
UN human rights experts warned three days ahead of a key climate summit in Copenhagen that a weak outcome of the negotiations could endanger human rights with poor communities the most vulnerable.
WASHINGTON, DC - Two advocacy groups have filed a petition asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set national limits for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. They say there is no need to wait for Congress to pass a law limiting greenhouse gases because the Clean Air Act already contains the comprehensive, science-based, flexible,and immediately ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A nuclear official said today Iran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog about its plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment sites beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Imagine a bird's eye-view of Tahoe on a sunny summer day - a wide expanse of blue speckled with boats. Imagine that same view, but over an area of stream-zone restoration as it morphs over time. Now imagine how the view would look in the case of a catastrophic wildfire, watching how the speed and direction of the wind influences the flames' path. Scientist have tried ...
Iran says it will only do the minimum required to cooperate with the U.N.‘s nuclear watchdog agency.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. government should back away from pressuring Baghdad on the Iraqi election law as the vote does not necessarily equate to stability, an analyst says.
Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday. Their report comes just days before President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, to speak at a United Nations conference on climate change.
LIMA, Peru – One of the top Native leaders in Peru, co-chief of the 70,000-member Awajun Tribe which took the brunt of the damage in the deadly June clashes against police, said the investigations into the death of 33 people appears headed in the wrong direction, but Natives still hope for a fair result.
Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday.
Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center.
The Obama administration is looking to press in early January for a new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran for its continued defiance of demands to come clean about its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Friday.
Alicia Keys' collaborations with Beyoncé and Drake, "Put It In a Love Song" and "Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)," from her forthcoming Element of Freedom LP, hit the Internet on Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say the Obama administration is looking to press a new round of United Nations sanctions on Iran in early January for its continued defiance of demands to come clean about its nuclear program.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say the Obama administration is looking to press a new round of United Nations sanctions on Iran in early January for its continued defiance of demands to come clean about its nuclear program.
Iran said Friday it would keep plans for 10 new enrichment plants secret until six months before they were ready to concentrate uranium into nuclear fuel.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 12/04/09) - Flaherty & Crumrine Investment Grade Fixed Income Fund (TSX: FFI.UN - News ) is pleased to announce that it has filed a final prospectus for an offering of warrants to unitholders of the Fund. Each unitholder of record on December 15, 2009 will receive one-half of a warrant for each unit held. One warrant will entitle the holder to purchase a unit upon ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate researchers say cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing. Their report comes just days before President Barack Obama goes to Copenhagen, Denmark, to speak at a United Nations conference on climate change.
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States said Friday that his country could take over its own security in five years, but he cautioned that the plan depends equally on the success of American-led military efforts and civilian aid.
Climate researchers say cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Carbon dioxide permits in the U.S. Northeast’s “cap-and-trade” market drew a record low price at auction and some were unsold for the first time on predictions that power plants won’t need all the pollution rights issued by the program.
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