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Ban Ki-moon Orders Iraq Hazardous Material Probe
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 4:17 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched an immediate internal investigation backed by outside expertise to determine how potentially hazardous material removed by United Nations arms inspectors from Iraq in 1996 ended up in a UN office. More >>
Kosovars Go To Polls In November, UN Envoy Says
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:34 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo announced today that municipal, assembly and mayoral elections will be held on 17 November in the Serbian province administered by the United Nations since 1999. More >>
Aussie Named Senior UN Counter-terrorism Official
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:33 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the Security Council that he intends to appoint Australian Mike Smith as the new head of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee's Executive Directorate. More >>
Death Penalty Given In Journalist Murder Case
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:32 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today expressed serious concern at the death penalty verdict given to four men convicted of murdering a journalist working for a UN-sponsored radio station with the largest ... More >>
Myanmar: Experts Call For Release Of Protesters
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:31 pm | United Nations
Deploring the arrests of more than 100 peaceful protesters following demonstrations in Myanmar over the recent surge in fuel prices, a United Nations independent human rights expert today appealed for the immediate release of the detainees. More >>
Peacekeeping Training For Darfur To Be Enhanced
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:31 pm | United Nations
Top United Nations and Member States' police and human security officials today pledged to enhance training for UN Police (UNPOL) officers preparing to serve as peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region in what will be the largest single UN Police contingent ... More >>
DR Congo Police Officers Make Their Debut With UN
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:28 pm | United Nations
Twelve officers from the Congolese national police force (PNC) are starting year-long tours of duty with the United Nations peacekeeping missions in Haiti and Côte d'Ivoire, the first time that police officers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ... More >>
Colombians Who Fled To Ecuador Start Returning
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:28 pm | United Nations
Nearly 1,600 Colombians who fled to Ecuador over the past week after an outbreak of violence have started returning home although the situation remains tense throughout the area, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. More >>
Violence In Far Eastern DR Congo, UN Sends Troops
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:27 pm | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sent in reinforcement troops and stepped up the diplomatic pressure on both sides of the opposing factions of the armed forces in the volatile far east of the country ... More >>
Key Liberia Bridge Damaged By Heavy Rains Rebuilt
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:26 pm | United Nations
Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) have rebuilt a key bridge linking the capital, Monrovia, with the western part of the country and neighbouring Sierra Leone that collapsed just days ago, leaving thousands of ... More >>
Helping Peruvian Children After Deadly Quake
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:25 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies are working with the Peruvian Government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help more than 220,000 children in southern Peru return to school after this month's devastating earthquake. More >>
Humanitarian Situation In Darfur Deteriorating
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:25 pm | United Nations
A United Nations official today warned that the humanitarian situation is worsening in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region, with more people being displaced, increased security risks to aid workers and potentially rising malnutrition rates. More >>
Mauritania: UN Appeals For Refugee Return Funds
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:24 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today launched a $7 million appeal to help 24,000 refugees voluntarily return to Mauritania from Senegal and Mali. More >>
Two Swede Bikers Highlight UN Work For Refugees
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:23 pm | United Nations
Two Swedes, one a student and the other a stockbroker, set off from Stockholm this week on a round-the-world motorbike trip during which they plan to raise awareness about United Nations work on behalf of refugees and children. More >>
UN Fears Resumption Of Deadly Exodus From Africa
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:22 pm | United Nations
Thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis have already gathered in a northern Somalia port preparing to brave the perilous trip across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen when good weather returns. More >>
UN Uses Text Messaging To Alert Iraqis On Food Aid
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:21 pm | United Nations
The United Nations is using text messaging on mobile phones to alert more than 33,000 vulnerable Iraqi refugees in the Syrian capital, Damascus, of the launch of the first food distribution programme for them tomorrow. More >>
Taliban Should Be Ashamed Of Itself - UN Envoy
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:21 pm | United Nations
While welcoming last night's final release of South Korean hostages in Afghanistan, the top United Nations envoy in the country said the Taliban rebels who took them captive and killed two of them should be ashamed of themselves for attacking civilians. More >>
Mystery Deadly Illness In Central DR Congo
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:20 pm | United Nations
United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) experts have arrived in the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where there has been an outbreak of an unknown but highly deadly illness that is proving to be particularly harmful for ... More >>
Israeli Infrastructure Divides West Bank
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:19 pm | United Nations
Almost 40 per cent of the West Bank is now taken up by Israeli infrastructure, which limits Palestinians' ability to move freely and fragments their communities from each other, according to a new report. More >>
Global Response Needed On Climate Change
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 3:18 pm | United Nations
A United Nations climate change conference, preparing the way for a major December summit in Bali, wrapped up in Vienna today, with countries reaching agreement that a global approach is crucial in tackling the issue. More >>
