United Nations

  • Nov 18, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL: UN delegates avoid food pledge

Delegates at a UN-sponsored World Summit on Food Security will end their proceedings today in...

International
  • Nov 10, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL: FAO warns on food crisis repeat

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) chief, Jacques Diouf, warned yesterday that nearly...

International
  • Nov 10, 2009
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GEORGIA: UN envoy fears for refugees as winter comes

Many of those displaced by the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia face a second winter in the open,...

Georgia
  • Nov 10, 2009
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US/DRC: US envoy calls for Ntaganda 'accountability'

US Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region Howard Wolpe said yesterday that Bosco Ntaganda -- a...

United States
  • Nov 6, 2009
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PROSPECTS 2010: International climate policy

The Copenhagen conference on climate change takes place from December 7-18, with negotiations...

International
  • Nov 2, 2009
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UN/DRC: MONUC suspends operations with some army units

The UN peace-keeping mission (MONUC) indicated today that it would suspend its joint operations...

  • Oct 29, 2009
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IRAN/UN: Proposals likely to undermine nuclear deal

Iran presented its response to the proposed nuclear deal in Vienna today, after talks last week...

Iran
  • Oct 26, 2009
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SERBIA/UN: Karadzic boycotts start of his trial

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic today failed to appear before the International...

Serbia