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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.
The U.N. chief is naming blind pop star Stevie Wonder a United Nations Messenger of Peace to focus on helping people with disabilities.
LONDON - The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official said Friday.
Copenhagen - A UN climate summit that opens next week in Copenhagen is likely to stretch Danish police resources but an offer by Sweden to send hundreds of Swedish officers has been declined, reports said Friday. The December 7-18 summit is expected ...
The UN climate chief voiced optimism Wednesday that the upcoming Copenhagen summit will offer immediate aid for developing nations but urged rich states also to chart out long-term help.
Vienna, Dec 3 (AP) The world's poorest nations are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come, UN officials said today.
Serbia is cooperating with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia but the arrest of the fugitive former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is crucial, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday embraced the new U.S. plan for Afghanistan, calling it a balanced effort to achieve stability in the war-torn nation.
Traces of cocaine among the remains of a cargo plane recently discovered in West Africa suggest that large aircraft are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs and even weapons to the region, possibly benefiting terrorists, the U.N.'s anti-crime chief said Thursday.
NEW YORK - The United Nations is to conduct an investigation into emails leaked from a leading British climate science centre which appeared to show some of the world's leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work. The University of East Anglia has defended the integrity of the science published by its Climatic Research Unit and its researchers ...
The United Nations briefly evacuated three basement levels after a fire alarm went off Thursday morning, forcing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and pop star Stevie Wonder to leave a conference roo
(RTTNews) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's revised Afghan strategy, describing it a balanced effort aimed at promoting security and stability in the war-torn south-west Asian country.
Pop star Stevie Wonder had a hotter debut Thursday as a U.N. peace envoy than he expected.
US President Barack Obama has changed his plans and will now be at the UN climate conference on December 18, at the climax of talks in Copenhagen, rather than next week, the White House said Friday.
( Christensen Fund ) More than 20 members of an indigenous peoples' delegation arriving in Copenhagen for UN climate change talks will publicly debut on Friday, Dec. 4, a series community-made videos documenting evidence and accounts of local climate change impacts.
WASHINGTON - 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.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A United Nations group seeking to outlaw nuclear-weapons tests set up a detection facility near the border between Iran and Turkmenistan that could register the shock waves of an atomic blast.
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.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor reported Friday to the U.N. Security Council that violence continues in Darfur and that the Sudanese president and his government are not cooperating with investigators.
Students from the Healey School and other Boston-area middle schools gathered Nov. 21 at Northeastern University to simulate five United Nations meetings — the UN Security Council, UNICEF, Human Rights Council, DISEC, and the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. Middle school delegates debated topics including climate change, prisoner treatment, primary education, landmines, and the conflict ...
Pollution and climate change cost Lebanon more than half a million dollars (330 million euros) a year, the environment minister said on Friday ahead of the UN climate talks.
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