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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 14, 12:53 pm ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 7:16 am ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 1:15 am ET
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.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 14, 12:21 pm ET
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.
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Newsday - Mon Dec 14, 9:42 am ET
China, India, other developing countries boycott UN talks, demand rich cut emissions more
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Newsday - Mon Dec 14, 8:57 am ET
China, India, other developing countries block UN talks, demand rich cut their emissions more
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 4:18 pm ET
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.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 14, 9:25 am ET
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen are resuming, Danish climate spokeswoman Ida Ebbensgaard said by telephone.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 46 minutes ago
World leaders raised the pressure for results at the UN climate summit on Tuesday, amid procedural wrangles, finger-pointing and defence of national interests.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 14, 9:03 am ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 56 minutes ago
World leaders began arriving at the UN climate summit Tuesday, seeking to give a shot in the arm to the floundering talks after warnings that the whole event was at risk of ending in failure.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 15, 12:36 am ET
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.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 14, 7:48 am ET
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.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 12:43 pm ET
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.
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USA Today - Mon Dec 14, 12:42 pm ET
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.
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Mon Dec 14, 8:48 am ET
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 [...]
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 7:00 pm ET
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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Wired News - Mon Dec 14, 4:55 pm ET
Had enough Facebooking for one lifetime? Learn how to remove yourself completely. Or at least figure out how to control the site's privacy settings before your boss stumbles upon the pics of that night in Vegas.
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UPI - Mon Dec 14, 11:26 pm ET
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Film producer and philanthropist Jerry Weintraub was honored as Man of the Year at UNICEF's 2009 fundraising gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., organizers said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 14, 3:16 pm ET
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...