UN envoy to Afghanistan to step down
AFP - Fri Dec 11, 6:35 am ETThe top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide will step down when his two-year mission reaches its scheduled end in March 2010, a UN spokesman said Friday.
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Top UN official in Afghanistan wants to leave
FOX 11 Tucson - Fri Dec 11, 6:33 am ETKABUL (AP) — A spokesman says the top United Nations official in Afghanistan has asked the U.N. secretary-general to start looking for his replacement.
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UN to boost force in troubled northern DR Congo
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:42 pm ETThe UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) plans to step up its strength at Gemena in the northwest to stop tribal strife getting worse, MONUC chief Alan Doss said Wednesday.
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Kai Eide: Top UN Official In Afghanistan Has Had Enough
The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 11, 7:27 am ETWhat's Your Reaction? KABUL — The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will not renew his two-year contract when it expires in March. Kai Eide, a Norwegian diplomat, said he is not stepping down but has asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to start searching for a replacement.
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New Climate Draft Has Gaping Holes at UN Talks
US News & World Report - Fri Dec 11, 10:52 am ETThe six-page draft agreement attempts to bridge the divide between rich and poor countries.
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At climate talks, UN agency makes 'call to action' on hunger
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:19 pm ETThe UN emergency food agency Wednesday launched a "call to action" to help the world's farmers prepare for the effects of global warming.
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Developing nations slam EU climate fund pledge
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 7:24 pm ETDeveloping nations at the UN climate conference rejected as "insignificant" on Friday an EU pledge of 7.2 billion euros (10.6 billion dollars) to help them tackle global warming.
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First UN Climate Draft in Copenhagen Is Too Weak, Turesson Says
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 11, 9:25 am ETDec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The first draft agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks seems too weak to keep the planet’s temperature increase to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), said Anders Turesson, who speaks on behalf of the European Union.
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2nd UPDATE: Rich Countries Should Cut CO2 95% By 2050 -UN Draft
Nasdaq - Fri Dec 11, 12:32 pm ET(Adds details of text, comments from negotiators and background.)
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UN Envoys Prepare $25 Billion Forest-Protection Plan (Update1)
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 10, 3:30 pm ETDec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations negotiators are preparing a $25 billion proposal to save tropical forests in more than 10 countries, a delegate at the climate-change talks in Copenhagen said.
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Kyoto Climate Treaty May Be Extended to 2017, Under UN Draft
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 11, 8:40 am ETDec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The first draft agreement produced at the Copenhagen climate talks on the Kyoto Protocol calls for extending the 1997 accord to at least 2017.
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Tough bargaining still ahead at UN climate talks
Idaho State Journal - Fri Dec 11, 9:10 pm ETA Danish police boat passes the former stock exchange building, rear, near parliament in the center of Copenhagen Friday Dec. 11, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Draft Agreement for UN Talks Assumes Extention of Kyoto Protocol
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 11, 7:40 am ETDec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A climate-protection agreement draft obtained today by Bloomberg assumes that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol will be extended into a second phase of targets starting in 2013.
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UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts
The Standard-Times - Sat Dec 12, 12:16 am ETCOPENHAGEN — Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft agreement...
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Copenhagen UN climate summit produces draft pact; lacks specificity on gas emission cuts, financing
New York Daily News - Fri Dec 11, 10:31 am ETA new draft agreement Friday at the Copenhagen climate talks pulled together the main elements of a global pact but left gaping holes on financing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions for world leaders to fill in next week.
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Coptic Christians Rally in NY on 12/14/2009 at 12 PM in Front of the UN to Stop the Persecution of Christians in Egypt
Christian News Wire - Sat Dec 12, 12:26 am ETNEW YORK, Dec. 12 / Christian Newswire / -- The Egyptian government facilitates attacks against Coptic Christians directly by destroying church properties, unlawfully detaining, raping and torturing converts to Christianity and failing to prosecute the Islamic extremists who attack Coptic Christians.
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Iran may face new UN sanctions: U.S., UK, France
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 1:20 pm ETThe United States, Britain and France warned Iran on Thursday that it may face new sanctions over its nuclear program, but Russia and China hinted that they were not convinced more punitive steps were needed.
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UN Climate Talks Likely to Produce Two Agreements, De Boer Says
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 10, 12:40 pm ETDec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations negotiators will probably propose two climate agreements this month, with an extension of the Kyoto Protocol controlling emissions until a wider deal is struck, said the top official at talks in Denmark.
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Winter Survival Kit for the Un-Winterable
Blogcritics.org - Thu Dec 10, 7:17 pm ETWinter tips for the un-winterable.
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Top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan to step down in March
Washington Post - Fri Dec 11, 11:00 pm ETUNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations' top envoy in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said Friday that he would step down from his post in March, ending a tumultuous tenure that was marred by allegations of widespread corruption in Afghanistan's U.N.-backed presidential election.
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'Great progress' in Zimbabwe: UN official
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 8:33 am ETA top UN official on Wednesday praised "great progress" in easing Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis, but urged donors to continue supporting the country's recovery from a decade of economic freefall.
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