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Five people were injured on Thursday aboard a United Nations helicopter when it came under fire in DR Congo in a northwestern region where tribal violence has claimed 100 lives, a UN source said.
Six world powers are demanding Iran immediately mothball a uranium enrichment site it hid for years in a resolution to be voted on by U.N. nuclear agency governors, calling it a message to Tehran to change its ways.
Despite Israel’s announcement of a 10-month settlement freeze and the Palestinians claim that violent attacks are over, tensions seem set to rise.
Despite Israel’s plan for a 10-month settlement freeze and Palestinians’ claim that attacks are over, tensions seem set to rise.
The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must offer a target and financing.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, says his investigation of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms has hit a wall because Tehran is not cooperating.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Radovan Karadzic is currently not allowed to appeal a decision by a UN war crimes tribunal to assign him a lawyer, the court in The Hague said today.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that his investigation of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at "a dead end." He warned that confidence in Tehran had shrunk in the wake of its belated revelation of a previously secret nuclear facility.
Outgoing head of IAEA says trust in Tehran's credibility is shrinking after it belatedly revealed it is secretly building a nuclear facility.
Tackling climate change should also include providing low-carbon energy to the poor, UN agencies said Monday, pointing out that almost one third of the world?s population remains in the dark at night.
Greenhouse gas emissions have kept increasing, reaching a record level since the pre-industrial era, the UN climate agency warned Monday, just weeks before a crucial climate change summit.
Johannesburg - The United Nations on Wednesday appealed for 6 million dollars in donations for the island of Madagascar ahead of the annual cyclone season. Each year, between January and March, the impoverished Indian Ocean island of around 13 millio...
Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, her lawyer and Norway's government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.
The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must first get on board.
Bangkok - Supply and demand for amphetamine-type drugs is climbing rapidly in South-East and East Asia with potentially fearful consequences, a UN report released in Bangkok Thursday said. Gary Lewis, regional representative of the United Nations Off...
Germany's top general quit on Thursday over an air strike in Afghanistan on two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in which dozens of civilians are believed to have died in the resulting inferno.
The United States, one of the few countries likely to recognize post-coup elections in Honduras, will watch the upcoming polls with "great interest," the US State Department said Thursday.
Burundi's secret services on Thursday denied the country was serving as a rear base for Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Irai leaders worked to avoid delays to January elections, warning that disagreements could still unravel any deal.
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China promised Thursday 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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