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The new head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, on Monday held talks here on future cooperation with Nigeria, which plans to build its first nuclear power plant with Russian assistance.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations climate talks resumed in Copenhagen after envoys from developing countries caused a three-hour delay in a dispute over the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
A U.N.-backed Congolese military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, with more than 1,400 people deliberately killed over a nine-month period, human rights groups said Monday.
Key points in the U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in June imposing additional sanctions on North Korea for its second nuclear test in defiance of an earlier ban.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Gordon Brown will fly to the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen tomorrow, two days ahead of schedule, to push for an agreement by the Dec. 18 conclusion.
China, India, other developing countries boycott UN talks, demand rich cut emissions more
China, India, other developing countries block UN talks, demand rich cut their emissions more
A protest by African nations accusing rich countries of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen are resuming, Danish climate spokeswoman Ida Ebbensgaard said by telephone.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations suspended most of the climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen after developing nations said they were turning into an attempt to kill the 1997 Kyoto Protocol treaty.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations delayed the start today of “informal consultations” that were set to discuss gridlocked issues at global climate-treaty talks including emissions-reduction goals.
A protest by African nations accusing the rich of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen.
China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Climate-treaty negotiators proposed delaying until at least 2010 a decision on letting companies in industrialized nations offset their emissions by investing in carbon-capture projects in the developing world.
Dr. Emmanuel Navon, a member of the Likud party, knows his history. Or rather his version. As he addressed a small gathering of journalists last week at the International Press Centre in Brussels, Dr. Navon spoke on his own personal terms. In other words, what he said is officially…unofficial. The Council of the European Union had [...]
Two civilian members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who were held hostage for more than 100 days have been released, the U.N. said Sunday.
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New York - A North Korean cargo plane loaded with weapons and seized by Thai authorities in Bangkok is a serious matter requiring the attention of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. Ban said the Thai government w...
Negotiators worked through the night Tuesday to prevent a UN climate summit from ending in catastrophic failure after developing nations staged a five-hour walkout and China accused the West of trickery.
by Rajeev Syal Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of ...
A civilian staffer of the UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region expressed relief on Monday after being freed along with another UNAMID employee following a kidnap ordeal.
