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UNITED NATIONS - The chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Monday that the Group of Eight nations had "clearly ignored" taking any concrete action to accomplish its new goal of limiting climate change.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Monday it had lodged a complaint about Chad with the U.N. Security Council, accusing its neighbor of launching an air raid inside Sudanese territory.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Islamic insurgents with alleged links with al-Qaida looted two United Nations compounds in southern Somalia on Monday, and announced they will ban three U.N. agencies from operating in areas the militants control.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen from Somalia's al Shabaab group looted two United Nations compounds on Monday after the al Qaeda-linked militants said they would shut down three U.N. agencies operating in the Horn of Africa nation.

GENEVA - A U.N. labor tribunal ordered the global body's weather agency to pay damages to a former auditor fired in 2006 after clashing with the organization's top official over a corruption probe.

BEIRUT - Villagers threw stones at U.N. peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon Saturday, lightly injuring 14 soldiers, in an attempt to prevent an investigation near the site of a recent explosion, a spokeswoman said.

KATHMANDU (AFP) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recommended in a report released Saturday that the UN's special mission to Nepal be extended for another six months.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon marked the 91st birthday of Nelson Mandela by hailing the South African statesman as "a living embodiment of the highest values of the United Nations."

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudanese government cooperation with peacekeepers in Darfur has improved and major violence there is now uncommon but the situation of civilians remains dire, says a new report by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.

GENEVA - The first talks among governments about how to limit the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a class of powerful greenhouse gases commonly used as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners, have been promising, officials said Friday.

KATHMANDU (AFP) - The United Nations on Friday welcomed Nepal's pledge to release more than 4,000 former Maoist fighters, most of them child soldiers, by November 2.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The U.N. team conducting an inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not seek to name culprits, the commission's head said Friday, lowering expectations from the outset.

GENEVA - The United Nations says an international accord requiring governments to publicly identify sites of environmental pollution will come into force on Oct. 8.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday expanded the list of North Korean bodies and individuals under sanctions for nuclear and missile activities, adding its atomic energy agency and two of its top officials.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN Security Council slapped sanctions on five individuals and five entities from North Korea known to be involved in Pyongyang's banned nuclear and ballistic missile activities.

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. imposed new sanctions Thursday against five North Korean officials, four companies and a state agency, and banned imports of two weapons-making materials, in a rare unified push by the world's powers to thwart Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

UNITED NATIONS - A panel of the U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against North Korea that include travel bans and asset freezes against five individuals, four companies and one state agency. It also banned sales of two materials used in ballistic missiles.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Thursday demanded tougher action by United Nations peacekeepers against Hezbollah arms stockpiles following blasts in south Lebanon.