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The United Nations plans to present a list of proposals to solve disputes over the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and other troublesome regions in northern Iraq, UN officials disclosed on Wednesday.
Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is planning to visit Myanmar at the end of this year to hold talks on the country's political problems, the main opposition party said Wednesday.
Myanmar's main opposition party says it has been told that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit in December to hold talks on the country's political problems.
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday.
ROME - A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday.
Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
Backed by the United States and European powers, Georgia pleaded Tuesday for the U.N. Security Council to demand that Russia immediately withdraw its troops from its small neighbor.
Huda Ghalia, still haunted by the explosion on a Gaza City beach that killed most of her family, has found a place to heal at a new UN-run summer camp along with other war-scarred Palestinian children.
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday.
Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
Russian troops showed no signs of relaxing their grip on critical Georgian areas despite Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's pledge for a withdrawl of forces.
Billionaire mayor sees wind turbines on bridges among ways to generate green power.
The Mauritanian parliament opened a special session here Wednesday two weeks after generals ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi as thousands of people marched in an anti-coup rally.
El aspirante republicano a la Presidencia, Senador John McCain, realiz un alto en El Paso este martes, antes de partir hacia Las Cruces, para un acto de campaa proselitista.
Iran described talks with a top U.N. inspector over its nuclear program -- which the West fears is a cover to build atomic bombs -- as "positive," the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
SEMTECH CORPORATION (NASDAQ: SMTC), a leading producer of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today reported un-audited financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2009 that ended July 27, 2008.
Locals call them Blood Alley, the Road to Death, Massacre Mountain and Slaughter Lane. Here's why.
Nairobi - The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday she was shocked at the killing of an employee in Somalia, as Islamic insurgents continue to target aid workers. Abdulkadir Diad Mohamed, who worked for th...
Moscow moved closer Wednesday to recognising the independence of two Georgian separatist regions at the centre of Caucasus conflict -- as a diplomatic onslaught with its former Cold War rivals gathered pace.
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Almost a week after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Russia it couldn't roll back the clock to 1968 and invade its neighbors, the U.S. and European allies are still trying to reverse the Russian incursion into Georgia.
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