United Nations
INDONESIA: Forestry under scrutiny at Copenhagen
Next week's climate change conference in Copenhagen will see consensus on the need to stem the...
IndonesiaIRAN/UN: Implausible nuclear plans signal defiance
President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad announced yesterday that he had ordered the construction of ten...
IranIRAN/UN: IAEA resolution signals growing impatience
IAEA governors today voted overwhelmingly to urge the immediate halt of work on Iran's recently...
IranIRAN/UN: Western frustration raises sanction prospects
US President Barack Obama warned today that Washington and its international partners were...
IranISRAEL/US: Settlement defiance will prove untenable
The government yesterday approved a plan to build 900 new housing units in Gilo, a Jewish...
IsraelINTERNATIONAL: UN delegates avoid food pledge
Delegates at a UN-sponsored World Summit on Food Security will end their proceedings today in...
InternationalINTERNATIONAL: FAO warns on food crisis repeat
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) chief, Jacques Diouf, warned yesterday that nearly...
InternationalGEORGIA: 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