UN court to rule on Niger-Burkina Faso border row
AFP - Sat Nov 21, 3:08 pm ETBurkina Faso and Niger are to ask the International Court of Justice to settle their long-running border dispute, the Burkinabe foreign minister said Saturday.
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UN food summit to ends without much progress
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Nov 18, 6:43 am ETRome - A three-day United Nations food summit marked by the failure to secure substantial new funds to combat world hunger wrapped up in Rome on Wednesday. Summit host, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FA0), estimates that some 44 billion do...
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Slower population growth to help environment: UN study
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 11:35 am ETBraking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.
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UN committee criticizes NKorea rights violations
Boston Globe - Thu Nov 19, 7:33 pm ETA key United Nations committee is expressing very serious concern at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea.
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'Un-Indian' Bollywood promo sparks protests
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 8:39 pm ETPromotional posters for a new Bollywood thriller, showing leading actress Kareena Kapoor from behind and apparently naked from the waist up, have got some people's backs up in India.
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In Draft Resolution, United Nations Rebukes Iran for Rights Violations Since Election
New York Times - Fri Nov 20, 7:03 pm ETA measure, which is almost certain to pass in the General Assembly, denounces a rise in violence, torture and limits to free speech.
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UN Warns of Rising Extremism Against Women
Kansas City InfoZine - Fri Nov 20, 7:37 am ETA senior United Nations official has voiced fears that rising religious extremism poses a new and major threat against women.
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Gobble gobble Goldman
New York Post - Sat Nov 21, 6:56 am ETThe waiters at this Thanksgiving dinner ought to be leaving the tips. Several hundred employees of the vilified Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs have volunteered to serve turkey for the Salvation Army next week -- and the so-called masters of the un...
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Mohamed ElBaradei says Iran nuclear deal still possible
The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 4:00 am ETOfficially, Iran has not yet given a "final answer" to a nuclear fuel proposal from six world powers, the chief of the UN's nuclear watchdog, said on Friday.
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China says scrap UN Internet governance forum
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 2:28 pm ETChina on Wednesday called for the abolition of the UN's Internet Governance Forum, blasting it as a powerless gathering where IT heavyweight countries dominate.
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At least 100 dead in DR Congo ethnic clashes: UN
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 2:23 pm ETAt least 100 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo that caused 25,000 civilians to flee, the UN said Wednesday.
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Lack of top leaders hobbled UN Hunger summit: Diouf
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 1:18 pm ETThe absence of leaders from the world's wealthiest states undermined the UN Hunger Summit, reducing it to a "technical" forum, the head of the UN food agency said Wednesday.
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UN urges help for 1 billion children deprived of food, shelter, water
The Daily Reveille - Fri Nov 20, 12:03 am ETUNITED NATIONS (AP) — UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care — and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence — two decades after the U.N. adopted a tre...
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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 2:34 pm ETComputer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
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Speaker outlines UN actions, U.S. relationships
Daily Vidette - Thu Nov 19, 12:46 am ETWhile in the past, the United States has had a more than an ambiguous relationship with the UN, senior advisor for the United Nations Foundation and ISU guest speaker explained why she felt the U.S. move to build a better relationship with the UN was a good one.
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U.N. urges aid for quake-ridden Indonesia
UPI - Sat Nov 21, 2:29 pm ETJAKARTA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The United Nations' health agency says Indonesia needs financial help to recover from two earthquakes and prepare for future disasters.
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Sri Lanka to free all war-displaced civilians
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 8:42 am ETSri Lanka said Saturday it would grant free movement to the remaining war-displaced civilians held in internment camps, meeting a key demand of the international community.
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U.N. official urges disaster preparedness
UPI - Sat Nov 21, 2:13 pm ETUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The world's nations need to work harder to safeguard citizens from disasters caused by climate change, a United Nations official said in New York.
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Oil Sands Split Trust (TSX: OST.UN and OST.PR.A) Announces Distribution Increase for Third Quarter 2009
Marketwire - Thu Nov 19, 5:16 pm ETTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 19, 2009) - Oil Sands Split Trust (the "Trust") (TSX:OST.UN)(TSX:OST.PR.A) is pleased to announce a quarterly distribution of $1.15 per Capital Unit, payable on December 15, 2009 to unitholders of record on November 30, 2009. The distribution of $1.15 per Capital Unit represents a $0.90 increase from the previous quarter. A quarterly interest payment of $0 ...
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Lebanese forces fire at Israeli drone
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 1:02 pm ETLebanese anti-aircraft guns opened fire on Saturday on an Israeli drone that entered Lebanese airspace in the south of the country, the military said in a statement.
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No 'final answer' from Iran on nuclear offer: IAEA
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 6:33 am ETIran has not yet provided a "final answer" to a "unique" international nuclear fuel offer, Mohamed ElBaradei, the outgoing head of the UN nuclear watchdog, said on Friday.
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