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The three members of a UN commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed arrived on Wednesday to pursue their investigation.
Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.
Climate change and environmental experts from the University of New Hampshire are available to discuss the critical and controversial issues that will be raised as global leaders meet Dec. 7-18, 2009, in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will join at least 65 other world leaders in Copenhagen next month during United Nations talks on combating climate change, an administration official said today.
Write a new 10 Commandments of the Internet, Peter proposed, and draft them on a tablet PC on Mount Sinai. The "Peter" in question was Internet historian Ian Peter, and the place was the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum 2009 held last week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, a few kilometers from Mount Sinai. Peter's model for his proposed commandments isn't Moses, but the engineers and computer ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Monday once again reminded India that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory and it should be resolved and settled in accordance with the resolutions of United Nations.
Vienna - Six world powers aim to put pressure on Iran with a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that would censure Tehran over its new nuclear site and would involve the UN Security Council, diplomats said Tuesday. The IAEA's...
President Barack Obama's decision to drop in on the international climate conference in Copenhagen next month lends some star power to an event that's lost much of its luster — but at considerable risk for Obama himself.
Officials found 11 more bodies Wednesday at the site of an attack on an election caravan in the south, bringing the death toll in the massacre to 57, and police said they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the president's administration.
Israeli government ministers Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a temporary freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.
The upcoming COP15 meeting in Denmark—so named because it is the 15th such international gathering of the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—is the world's next big chance to take decisive multi-lateral action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions substantially enough to ward off cataclysmic climate change.
Vienna - Six world powers have drafted a resolution to censure Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over a new nuclear facility and to involve the UN Security Council, several diplomats said Tuesday. The IAEA's governing board is set...
President Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month for a climate change summit, the White House said Wednesday.
Philippine security forces found 11 more bodies Wednesday at the site of an election-related massacre in the south of the country, taking the toll to 57 dead, officials said.
Los contratos de futuros sobre el oro se dispararon el miércoles a un nuevo máximo récord debido a la renovada debilidad del dólar y los temores sobre la inflación.
Iran's demand for changes to a nuclear fuel deal is unacceptable because it could mean Tehran keeping enough enriched uranium for possible use in an atom bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in an interview.
President Obama will offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, White House officials said.
The U.N. humanitarian chief says Sri Lanka's decision to release Tamil refugees confined to government camps is good news but the United Nations is concerned about how they are being returned home. John Holmes, who just returned from Sri Lanka, said Monday... Sri Lanka - United Nations - John Holmes - Asia - Tamil language
The Obama administration is wise to wait for Iran to respond clearly to a confidence-building nuclear offer in the hope the divided leadership in Tehran comes to its senses, analysts say.
Development officials say almost half the world's population lacks modern fuels to cook or heat or any electricity, and insist negotiators must address that "energy poverty" as part of any global climate pact next month in Denmark.
VIENNA — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Germany's foreign minister urged Iran Wednesday to...
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