Chinese UN diplomat unleashes drunken rant
(AFP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 13 hours agoAFP - The most senior Chinese diplomat at the United Nations delivered a drunken rant last week against his boss, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Americans at a retreat in Austria, a report said Thursday.
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Iran appeals for help in beating opium traders
(AFP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 19 hours agoAFP - Thousands of Iranian narcotics agents have been killed and billions of dollars spent in Iran's fight against the opium trade, the country's ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Ban asks Rwanda not to withdraw Sudan peacekeepers
(Reuters)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 20 hours agoReuters - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Rwanda Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as he sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked U.N report.
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Obama to attend U.N. Sudan meeting September 24
(Reuters)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 23 hours agoReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will attend a U.N.-organized summit on Sudan on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly on September 24, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Wednesday.
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Laura Bush promotes women's literacy
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:13:23 PMAP - Former First Lady Laura Bush says that teaching more women around the world to read and write can dramatically improve their lives and those of their children.
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Struggle to agree UN summit kickstart for Millennium goals
(AFP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:24:51 PMAFP - World powers are moving slowly toward an accord on the strategy to be embraced at a looming United Nations summit aiming to get the lofty Millennium Development Goals back on track.
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US to push for UN expert on freedom of assembly
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:24:17 PMAP - The United States wants the United Nations to appoint an independent expert on freedom of assembly.
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U.N. agency to report fall in Afghan opium output
(Reuters)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:52:40 PMReuters - A United Nations agency will report that opium poppy production has fallen in Afghanistan this year but there are enough stocks to keep supplying heroin production, the agency's new chief said on Wednesday.
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UN chief in Rwanda over threatened Sudan pullout
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:45:39 PMAP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Rwanda's president Wednesday after he threatened to withdraw thousands of Rwandan peacekeepers if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990s.
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UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:01:48 AMAP - The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.
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Obama to address anti-poverty summit and UN
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:33:31 PMAP - U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to New York in late September to address a summit to spur the achievement of U.N. goals to combat poverty and the annual ministerial meeting of the General Assembly.
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Trial delayed for ex-UN inspector charged in sting
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:08:48 PMAP - The trial of a former United Nations weapons inspector in an online child-sex sting in Pennsylvania has been delayed.
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Death toll at Darfur camp rises to nine, U.N. says
(Reuters)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:18:50 PMReuters - The death toll from weekend clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region has risen to nine, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Ten million without shelter in Pakistan floods: UN
(AFP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:30:22 PMAFP - Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.
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UN: No food crisis looms despite Russia wheat ban
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:59:38 PMAP - No global food crisis appears to be looming despite a Russian wheat shortfall that has helped lift prices to their highest level in two years, but volatile food commodities markets need better regulation, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
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UNICEF refocuses on poorest of poor children
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:31:26 AMAP - The U.N. children's agency says it has failed to reach millions of the world's neediest boys and girls in slums and remote countryside and is shifting to a strategy of getting critical health care services to the poorest of the poor.
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Iran hampering nuclear investigation: IAEA
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 05:23:30 PMAFP - Iran is hampering a long-running investigation into its controversial nuclear drive by vetoing the nomination of certain United Nations inspectors, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday.
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UN needs far more money for Pakistan floods
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:21:04 PMAP - The United Nations says it needs hundreds of millions of dollars in new donations to get food, water, medicine and shelter to Pakistanis hit by flooding.
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US military chief seeks Turkish support over Iran
(AP)
Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:50:59 AMAP - The United States' top military officer stressed on Saturday the need for Turkey to help enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at deterring the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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US rights group urges release of Iranian activist
(AP)
Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:17:46 PMAP - A U.S. human rights group urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to secure the release of a prominent Iranian journalist and activist who goes on trial Saturday on charges that carry the death penalty.
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