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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.
BELGRADE, Aug 19, 2008 (AFP) - An agreement to hand over UN property in Kosovo to a European Union mission violates international law, Serbia's minister for the breakaway province Goran Bogdanovic said Tuesday.
Wed, Aug 20, 2008 (12:45 p.m.) Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
Tbilisi/Geneva - Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees arrived in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Tuesday to begin a four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation to assess the humanitarian situation in the region. Earlier on T...
McCain has decided to build up an innocuous-sounding alternative called a 'League of Democracies -- an alliance of countries the US labels democratic that can be used to legitimate US military actions.
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari toured Myanmar's cyclone-struck delta Tuesday while on a mission to push the junta to re-open talks with detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi a year after mass anti-government protests.
DILI, East Timor (AFP)--Complaints of human-rights abuses by East Timor's fledgling national police have shown a "notable increase" over the past year, the U.N. said in a report Thursday.
JAKARTA (AFP)--The U.N. Security Council is under "growing pressure" to act against Myanmar's military regime unless it takes more credible steps toward democracy, Indonesia's foreign minister said Wednesday.
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.
COEUR d'ALENE -- Flags whipped against an icy wind at the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo entrance on Wednesday. Waves of rain pounded the vendor booths and picnic tables, while dark clouds threatened to unload more.
• Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and survivors of the attack attended the ceremony at UN Headquarters. | Remarks • The programme included the world premiere of a new work of classical music written in memory of UN staff who have perished in the line of duty.
Iran said on Wednesday that talks on its controversial nuclear drive with top UN atomic watchdog official Olli Heinonen were "positive" and would continue.
New York - Russia submitted a new draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, which it claimed reflects the six-point plan worked out by France to end the conflict in Georgia. The Russian draft was aimed at countering anothe...
While confusion continues to reign in Georgia as to Russia's intentions there and NATO prepares to get into the act, 50% of Americans believe the United Nations should send peacekeepers to the region, but only 22% say U.S. troops should be involved.
Thu, Aug 21, 2008 (1:03 a.m.) The U.N. food agency has asked South Korea to provide emergency aid to North Korea to help it avert a food crisis, an official said Thursday.
A top UN atomic watchdog official was holding fresh talks on Iran's nuclear drive on Monday, just a day after Tehran announced it sent a rocket into space in a move Washington branded "troubling."
Seoul - An acute food shortage in North Korea has led the World Food Programme to appeal to Seoul to send food aid to the impoverished communist country, officials said Thursday. The UN agency asked South Korea for a 60-million-dollar donation to its...
Going, going, gone! Like a home run off the bat of Cubs slugger Alfonso Soriano, summer in my eyes is officially over, as my oldest has flown the coop with his van full of stuff for his sophomore year at the University of Illinois, while my youngest trudged sadly to the bus stop en route to Conant High School yesterday for the start of junior year.
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has arrived in Tbilisi for talks with the Georgian government.
Some of the world's greatest thinkers, including Albert Einstein, were refugees. All children deserve the opportunity to demonstrate their potential and worth. Algeria has been host to thousands of refugees who fled the conflict in Western Sahara in 1975. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) helps provide food to these refugees, including school meals. In the following interview with ...
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Monday with Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win, state media said, shortly after he arrived in Yangon on a mission to open talks between the junta and Aung San Suu Kyi.
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