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U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar’s capital Monday on a five-day mission to promote national reconciliation and political reform in the military-ruled country.
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A U.N. nuclear conference has indirectly criticized Israel for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview.
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East stated that 20,000 women were raped, including infants and the elderly. Rapes were often performed in public during...
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The United Nations has appealed for help for Syria, which it says is experiencing its worst drought for 40 years.
The Syrian Government estimates that one million...
made popular Oct 4 2008
AP, United Nations
The top U.N. envoy to Congo warned Friday that renewed fighting in eastern Congo has heightened ethnic tensions and could lead to the renewal of a wider conflict in...
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AP, Geneva
The United Nations says fighting has killed at least 80 civilians in Somalia’s capital over the last two weeks. More than 100 people have been injured.
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The United Nations has launched a text messaging for peace campaign, urging cell phone users in the United States to compose peace messages to be published on a website...
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AP, Mitrovica
International judges and prosecutors began working in Kosovo’s ethnically divided north on Friday, more than six months after violent clashes forced them to...
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With the number of Filipino seafarers being held captive in North African waters rising, Philippine officials on Thursday said they are considering seeking help from...
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“The rights of too many people around the world are still violated. That is why the Mahatma’s legacy is more important than ever,” UN Secretary-General stated.
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AP, United Nations
A proposed U.N. resolution calls on all countries with a stake in maritime safety to send military ships and aircraft to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia,...
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AP, United Nations
A proposed new U.N. resolution calls on all countries interested in maritime safety to send naval ships and military aircraft to fight piracy on the high seas off the...
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AP, Islamabad
The U.N. declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff Thursday and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on a par with...
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AP, Islamabad
The U.N. ordered children of its international staff to leave the Pakistani capital and other areas it considered unsafe, raising its security level following the...
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I look at the situation in Zimbabwe with a growing feeling of sadness. I remember when the country was newly independent and there was so much hope, so much inspiration...
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AP, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that United Nations staff and humanitarian field workers are being deliberately targeted for attack by extremists and...
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AP, United Nations
The United Nations on Wednesday urged rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army to free 90 school children abducted two weeks ago in eastern Congo.
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AP, Vienna
The chief U.N. atomic inspector suggested Tuesday that nuclear weapons states bore some blame for other countries seeking such arms, because they are modernizing...
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Ethiopia’s foreign minister on Monday called for the U.N. to deploy peacekeepers to neighboring Somalia, where Islamic militants appear to be gaining strength.
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AP, Khartoum
An aid helicopter for the U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur was shot down outside a refugee camp on Monday, killing all four crew members and scattering debris over...
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AP, Khartoum
An aid helicopter for the U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur was shot down outside a refugee camp on Monday, killing all four crew members and scattering debris over...
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The state news agency says the Syrian government has named an ambassador to Iraq for the first time since the 1980s.
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AP, Stockholm
The top U.N. envoy to Darfur is resigning to make room for a new full-time chief negotiator, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Thursday.Envoy Jan Eliasson, a former...
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The top U.N. envoy to Darfur is resigning to make room for a new full-time chief negotiator, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Thursday.Envoy Jan Eliasson, a former...
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AP, Stockholm
Swedish radio is reporting that the United Nations’ top envoy to Darfur Jan Eliasson will resign to make room for a new full-time chief negotiator.The state-owned...
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AP, Amman
Jordan says it will dispatch an ambassador to Iraq, following the lead of other Arab nations.State Minister for Information Nasser Judeh told reporters Monday the...
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AP, Seoul
South Korea has replaced its top envoy to international negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear programs.The Foreign Ministry says Kim Sook has been appointed to...
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AP, United Nations
Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide has been appointed the latest U.N. “super envoy” to coordinate military and civilian efforts in Afghanistan, Secretary-General...
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AP, Washington
President Bush, trying to improve the image of the United States in the Islamic world, announced Wednesday that he has named a Texas entrepreneur as liaison to The...
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AP, Port-au-prince
U.N. peacekeepers will likely remain in Haiti for several more years because the troubled Caribbean country is not close to managing its own security, the...
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending the U.N. envoy to Myanmar back to the region next week for consultations with key governments on efforts to promote talks...
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Shattering all the plans and dreams of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Middle East envoy, America yesterday confined his powers to arbitrate peace talks...
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Peshawar:
People carry a coffin of Mohammed Khalid , driver of Afghan diplomat who was shot dead by gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Sept 22, 2008. Gunmen ambushed a car carrying a top Afghan diplomat in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing his driver...
