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A local UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) worker was shot dead in a lawless part of the southern Philippines close to where a political massacre occurred this week, police said Friday.
A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in this West African nation to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight.
Every November since 1975, Indian people have gathered on Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay, on what they call “Un-Thanksgiving Day,” to honor the occupation and those who participated and still fight for Indian rights today.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Russia urged Iran to cooperate with the international community as the United Nations’ atomic agency warned it had hit a “dead end” over whether the Islamic republic is developing a nuclear weapon.
Edina Energy and Environment Commissioner Paul Thompson will be representing Edina at the UN Climate Convention in Copenhagen, Denmark Dec. 7-18.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Mohamed ElBaradei , the head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, said his agency has reached a “dead end” in its ability to determine whether Iran is concealing work on a nuclear-weapons capability.
Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have thwarted UN-led attempts to disarm them militarily and global action is needed to cut off their financing, UN experts say.
One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries, including the United States and some in Europe, a United Nations report said.
MANILA (AFP)--An unknown gunman has shot a local U.N. Children's Fund worker in a lawless part of the southern Philippines close to where a political massacre occurred, the aid agency said here Friday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may improve chances for a global climate agreement at negotiations next month in Copenhagen.
A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in Guinea to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight.
(RTTNews) - At least five people were wounded when a UN helicopter came under fire from militants in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, said officials on Thursday.
TORONTO - Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.
World powers united on Friday to seek a new UN censure of Iran's nuclear programme and demand that it halt construction of uranium enrichment site kept secret until recently.
(RTTNews) - Outgoing chief of the UN nuclear watchdog said Iran was not cooperating with his agency in uncovering the truth about that country's dubious nuclear weapons program.
The UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in China and the government must do more to reach out to civil society and work with vulnerable groups such as homosexuals.
Thousands of civilians are fleeing Rwanda for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo causing fresh ethnic tensions in the region, the UN peacekeeping mission MONUC and refugee agencies said Wednesday.
Rome - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has approved a treaty that aims to close fishing ports to ships involved in illegal fishing, the Rome-based UN agency said Wednesday. The treaty, known as the Agreement on Port State M...
This wednesday (November 25th), Oxfam met with UN Security Council Ambassadors to present over 6500 signatures from concerned citizens in more than 130 countries, all...
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian food company Sadia said Thursday that it has been accepted to be a part of the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism project, which will allow the company to sell carbon credits next year.
Islamist militants in Somalia have warned a United Nations agency to buy food from Somali farmers or stop sending aid to the impoverished African country.
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