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A 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.
Even as world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen to debate just how to reduce greenhouse gases, a UC Davis professor and air quality expert is claiming that cows get a bum rap when it comes to global warming.
Negotiators at the UN climate marathon tried to steer into calmer waters Wednesday after developing countries blasted an early draft accord as favouring rich carbon emitters and sidelining the poor.
Poor nations clamor at UN climate summit over Danish proposal as data show hottest decade ever
Russia's top drugs adviser has called on the United States to use its troop surge into Afghanistan to help stem the flow of drugs entering its borders, as heroin addiction reaches epidemic levels.
PESHAWAR, 9 December 2009 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands internally displaced persons (IDPs) from northwestern Pakistan who have returned home over the past few months are finding it difficult to resume their former lives, despite the fact that some aid is now reaching them, according to aid agencies.
United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer did not mince any words Monday during his remarks on the opening day of the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen.
Humanitarian assistance is not reaching refugees displaced by the conflict in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, aid agencies say. The United Nations says it has no operations in restive Helmand province but is working with regional partners to target aid to displaced communities.
The temperature is rising in Denmark! The Copenhagen climate talks blew up yesterday as a secret document emerged that would allow the United States to dictate terms to the United Nations and poor countries about how to reduce greenhouse gases. T...
COPENHAGEN -- For some in the great debate over climate change, sci ence is for sale and any evidence that does not support their prejudices is irrelevant. Leading that charge yesterday against rational and open discussion was UN Secretary-Genera...
In response to the Associated Press article, "U.S.: Gases must face regulation," in The Daily Collegian Dec. 8, the news that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will look to set caps on greenhouse gas emissions is inspiring and encouraging.
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, listens during a briefing at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009. This decade has very likely been the warmest in the historical record, and 2009 will probably end up as one of the warmest years, the UN weather agency announced Tuesday at the second day of the 192-nation climate ...
An Iranian nuclear official says the purpose of a U.N. warning station set up in Turkmenistan near the border with Iran is "espionage."
Countries have begun shuttling drafts for a new climate agreement, feeling rising pressure to get texts ready before top ministers begin to arrive at the conference.
Thousands of protesters gathered in several cities in Indonesia on Wednesday to push the government to deal with rampant allegations of corruption.
COPENHAGEN -- A leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries and activists who feared it would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer countries.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited U.S. commanders in Afghanistan on Wednesday, promising that President Barack Obama's surge of extra forces would give them what they need for success against the Taliban.
Baghdad - Iraq's presidential council has once again postponed the date it will hold parliamentary elections, but this time the delay will be for only one day, to March 7. There was an agreement to hold elections on March 6, Presidential Chief of S...
Kyoto would be replaced with a protocol run by the World Bank, says Guardian. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian newspaper last night published a leaked draft of a climate agreement entitled only Draft 271109 but known as the "Danish Text" by UN delegates in Copenhagen. The revelation has driven a wedge between rich and poor nations as the draft proposal makes ...
North Korea is expected to suffer a serious grain shortage this year, well short of what it needs, a U.N. official who recently returned from the impoverished state said on Wednesday.
By Brian Murphy The Associated Press A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near government sites.
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