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Double Suicide Bombing In Israeli Port Condemned
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 9:30 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the double suicide bombing on Sunday in the Israeli port of Ashdod, which killed at least 10 people and injured 16 others. More >>
10th Anniversary Of Rwanda Genocide
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 9:29 am | United Nations
Next month's observance of the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide should be an occasion not only for remorse but also resolve, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Saturday. More >>
Ethiopia: UN Appeals For Up To $100m For Famine
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 9:14 am | United Nations
Ethiopia: UN Appeals For Up To $100 Million To Buy Local Surplus To Feed Hungry More >>
WHO: Potential Highly Lethal Flu Pandemic Looms
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:24 am | United Nations
Warning that a highly lethal human flu pandemic could occur at any time despite recent measures taken against a bird flu outbreak in Asia, the United Nations health agency announced today that it will bring together more than 100 health experts in Geneva ... More >>
UN: Global Fight Against Terrorism Boosted
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:22 am | United Nations
In the aftermath of yesterday's brutal terrorist attacks in Spain, delegates to an international conference on terrorism in Vienna today reaffirmed the central role of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) in the global ... More >>
UN & Myanmar Strike Deal Possible Refugee Returns
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:20 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has reached an agreement with Myanmar's Government to begin measures to create the necessary conditions in the country's east to allow the large-scale return of refugees from neighbouring Thailand. More >>
10,000 Sudanese Refugees Relocated To Safe Camps
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:18 am | United Nations
As sometimes-fatal militia attacks continue along the desolate border between Chad and Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency has relocated more than 10,000 Sudanese refugees further inland. More >>
Arms Embargo Against Dr Of Congo Monitored
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:16 am | United Nations
The Security Council today established a committee to monitor an eight-month-old arms embargo against all armed groups operating in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a bid to strengthen the weapons ban, also authorizing ... More >>
Grenade Attack On President's Home Condemned
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:15 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo has condemned the hand grenade attack early today on the Pristina home of Kosovo's President Ibrahim Rugova. More >>
Ex-Liberia Leader Charles Taylor's Assets Frozen
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:13 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today ordered all governments to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor and his immediate family and barred them from using "misappropriated funds and property" to obstruct the restoration ... More >>
Russia: UN Appeals Kidnapped Aid Worker's Release
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:12 am | United Nations
Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan issued a blanket appeal today for help in securing the release of a Doctors without Borders worker who was kidnapped more than a year and a half ago in southern Russia and is ... More >>
Middle East Parties Urged To Implement Road Map
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:09 am | United Nations
Given the urgent need to stem the cycle of violence in the Middle East and achieve a just and lasting settlement, the parties to the conflict must implement the Road Map plan for a two-State solution, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said ... More >>
UN Nuke Watchdog Adopts Resolutions On Iran, Libya
Monday, 15 March 2004, 10:07 am | United Nations
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week adopted resolutions on the verification of Iran's nuclear programme and on safeguards in Libya -- two countries that have key agreements in place pursuant to the Nuclear ... More >>
North Korea: Unicef To Spotlight Children’s Needs
Friday, 12 March 2004, 9:48 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations children’s agency will pay a three-day visit this weekend to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), where UN agencies recently warned that millions of people could go hungry this year unless additional donations ... More >>
Afghan Women Registering To Vote Rising
Friday, 12 March 2004, 9:45 am | United Nations
The number of women registering to vote for the upcoming elections in Afghanistan, though still far behind that of men, is showing a consistent gradual increase, the United Nations mission reported today. More >>
Madrid: Bomb Blasts Target Spanish Commuters
Friday, 12 March 2004, 8:14 am | United Nations
Reacting to news of several bomb blasts in Spain this morning, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reiterated his stance that there is no justification for targeting civilians, and said the perpetrators must to be held to account for their crimes. More >>
Tribunal Removes Miloševic's Contact Restrictions
Friday, 12 March 2004, 12:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced today that it has eased the communications limitations imposed on former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic. More >>
$203million Damages For Iraq's Invasion Of Kuwait
Friday, 12 March 2004, 12:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations panel set up to award damages arising from Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait today approved awards of $203.8 million to various claimants. More >>
Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Gets 18-Years Jail
Friday, 12 March 2004, 12:09 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced a former Bosnian Serb policeman to 18 years in prison for the murder and rape of Muslim and Croat men held in a detention camp from May to June 1992. More >>
Security Council Condemns Terror Attacks in Madrid
Friday, 12 March 2004, 12:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the bomb attacks in Madrid that killed at least 190 people and injured more than 1,200, and called on countries to cooperate in the effort to bring the perpetrators to justice. More >>
