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Probe Examines Role Of Cats In Bird Flu Infection
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:45 am | United Nations
UN Health Agency To Probe Possible Role Of Cats In Bird Flu Infection Of Humans More >>
Team To Probe Uranium Enrichment In North Korea
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency has sent an inspection team to the Republic of Korea (ROK) to investigate the production of a tiny amount of enriched uranium that the Government in Seoul claims was carried out without its knowledge. More >>
New UN Appeal For Freeing Russian School Hostages
Friday, 3 September 2004, 11:24 am | United Nations
As the school hostage drama in southern Russia dragged on towards its third day, the top United Nations official dealing with the fate of children in war joined the chorus of appeals from the world body for the immediate release of all the hostages. More >>
Iran And Libya High On UN Atomic Agency Agenda
Friday, 3 September 2004, 11:22 am | United Nations
The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency will have a full agenda when its Board of Governors begins a three-day meeting in Vienna on 13 September with issues ranging from forestalling nuclear terrorism to the latest status of the verification of atomic ... More >>
Women Ex-Combatants Want Role Peacekeeping Role
Friday, 3 September 2004, 11:21 am | United Nations
Women ex-combatants from Rwanda are seeking a role in regional peacekeeping missions in Africa, highlighting at a United Nations-sponsored meeting their experience of warfare and its particular impact on women as major advantages in efforts to bring ... More >>
Afghanistan: Millionth Refugee Returns Home
Friday, 3 September 2004, 11:20 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today marked a symbolic milestone with the return home of the one millionth Afghan from Iran since the start of voluntary repatriation to their war-ravaged country in April 2002, reducing by half the overall Afghan refugee ... More >>
Al Qaeda Poses As Great A Threat As Ever
Friday, 3 September 2004, 10:45 am | United Nations
Despite international efforts, the threat from al-Qaeda-related terrorism remains as great as ever but the nature of that threat has changed, according to the first report from the monitoring team dealing with United Nations sanctions against the ... More >>
UN Calls To Help Russia Hunt Hostage Takers
Friday, 3 September 2004, 10:37 am | United Nations
Reacting to the unfolding hostage crisis in the Russian Federation, the United Nations Security Council convened an urgent meeting this evening to demand the unconditional release of the detained -- who include numerous children -- and to urge all governments ... More >>
Guatemala: Investigation Into Squatter Violence
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:24 am | United Nations
The United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) has called on the country's authorities to launch a thorough investigation into Tuesday's deadly violence surrounding the eviction of squatters from a farm in the southern province of Retalhuleu. More >>
UN Says Sudan Has Failed To Disarm Militias
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:23 am | United Nations
The Sudanese Government has not disarmed the notorious Janjaweed militias nor stopped their brutal attacks against civilians in the war-torn Darfur region, the senior UN envoy to Sudan told the Security Council today in a meeting assessing what steps ... More >>
Miloševic Denies Delaying Genocide Trial
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:49 am | United Nations
The former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic today denied deliberately altering his medicine intake to delay proceedings during his trial on charges of genocide and other war crimes at the United Nations-run International Criminal Tribunal for ... More >>
SUDAN: Security Council Studies Assessment Report
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:48 am | United Nations
The Security Council's 15 members have received a United Nations report assessing the latest developments in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, a day before the senior UN envoy to the country briefs them on what progress Khartoum has made on ... More >>
Darfur: Rebels Release Abducted UN Aid Workers
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:47 am | United Nations
Announcing the safe release of its three staff members and three other relief workers captured by rebels in the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today condemned the targeting of humanitarian personnel ... More >>
Former Bosnian Serb Politician Gets 32 Years
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:24 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced the former prominent Bosnian Serb political leader Radoslav Brdjanin to 32 years in prison for torture, wilful killing and other crimes. More >>
Taliban Could Step Up Attacks Before Elections
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:22 am | United Nations
Warning that the Taliban and other extremist groups are preparing to step up their violent attacks ahead of Afghanistan's presidential elections this October, the head of the United Nations mission to the country today told the Security Council that ... More >>
North Korea: First-Ever UN Environmental Study
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:20 am | United Nations
Forests in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have declined, rivers and city air have become more polluted and major crop yields have fallen dramatically due to land degradation and natural disasters, according to the first-ever United ... More >>
Colombia: Mission To Remote Region Affected By War
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:19 am | United Nations
Colombian authorities and United Nations humanitarian officials have begun a joint mission to the country’s remote and impoverished Middle San Juan River region to assess how best to help more than 1,200 Afro-Colombians there displaced by recent ... More >>
UN Backs Cooperation On New Silk Road
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations is-cosponsoring an international symposium on regional economic cooperation along the New Silk Road, a vast corridor for commerce and tourism stretching from Lianyungang in easternmost China to Rotterdam in the western Netherlands, mirroring ... More >>
Moroccan Olympics Star El Guerrouj Helps UN Plan
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:16 am | United Nations
Morocco’s double Olympic gold medallist Hicham El Guerrouj will be using his popularity and fame on the track later this year to promote a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) early childhood development campaign targeting children in the critical ... More >>
Cleric's Effort To Broker Peace In Najaf Welcomed
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:14 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed efforts by Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric to end the fighting in the holy city of Najaf, voiced great concern over the high death toll in nearby Kufa and other cities, and reiterated ... More >>
