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UN chief Ban Ki-moon and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are to fire early shots in a global climate debate to start in earnest next month by dominating a Commonwealth summit opening in Trinidad on Friday.
Bonn, Germany - US President Barack Obama's presence at next month's climate summit in the Danish capital Copenhagen is vital, a UN official said Wednesday in the German city of Bonn. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on...
The lawyer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge jail chief urged judges Thursday to recognise his client's remorse, as the landmark first UN-backed trial over the "Killing Fields" era draws to a close.
(RTTNews) - Iran said Tuesday that Tehran is not opposed to sending its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment as per a UN-proposed deal, but demanded guarantees that it would receive 20% enriched uranium in exchange for the 3.5% enriched uranium it ships abroad.
China set a firm target to control its emissions of greenhouse gases Thursday, an unprecedented step that bolsters the momentum of climate change talks at next month's United Nations summit in Copenhagen.
UNITED NATIONS: A top United Nations official Monday denied that relief operations in South Waziristan had been cutback following the deteriorating security situation, saying the Pakistani UN staff was helping the uprooted civilians in the region.
The lawyer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge jail chief urged a UN-backed court Thursday to recognise his client's remorse, as the landmark trial over the "Killing Fields" era draws to a close.
Vienna (AFP) Nov 26, 2009 - Outgoing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei fired a parting shot at Iran here Thursday, saying efforts to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme have reached a dead end, as the UN atomic watchdog considered censuring Tehran.
BEIRUT — In unusually direct language, the outgoing chief of the United Nations' atomic energy watchdog Thursday took Tehran to task for failing to resolve unanswered questions about its nuclear program and lamented a "dead end" in resolving the standoff between the Islamic Republic and world powers.
President Obama will not be present during the climate conference's crucial final negotiations.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned the brutal killing of at least 39 Filipinos in violence-related elections in a southern province of the Philippines. Ban said in a statement that he condemns this heinous crime committ...
The declaration may help American efforts to have Russia and China join in approving new economic sanctions.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Countries most vulnerable to climate change said Friday they were incensed that rich nations were rethinking the timetable for concluding a global treaty that would hold them to legally binding targets for cutting emissions.
Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, her lawyer and Norway's government said Thursday.
China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches.
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VIENNA, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday its investigation into Iran's nuclear program had reached a "dead end."
Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.
Vienna (AFP) Nov 26, 2009 - UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei complained Thursday that his agency had made "no progress" in its investigation into alleged illicit nuclear activities in Syria.
The director of the United Nations nuclear watchdog yesterday declared in unusually blunt language that Iran has stonewalled investigators about evidence that the country had worked on nuclear
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Tuesday held talks with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Middle East peace process and other "international issues," news agency Jana said.
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