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European donation bails out Palestinian refugees
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:07 am | United Nations
A $76-million European Union donation to the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees will allow it to continue working after the end of the month following warnings that a suspension of donor funding resulting from the militant Hamas victory in Palestinian ... More >>
UN hails Torino’s ‘green’ Winter Olympics
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:03 am | United Nations
Contrary to suggestions that the Winter Olympics were held too far from the mountains, Torino may in fact have shown the way towards even ‘greener’ games, the head of the United Nations environmental agency said today. More >>
Agreement on international court in Hariri case
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:02 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations legal official has held three days of talks at United Nations Headquarters in New York with a Lebanese Government delegation on the establishment of a tribunal of an international character to try those charged with the killing ... More >>
DR of Congo: peacekeepers help army against rebels
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:00 am | United Nations
In the second military operation this week of its kind, some 300 United Nations peacekeepers, backed by helicopter gunships, are helping the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) dislodge militia said to have been looting and enslaving locals in ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: meeting of leaders of rival sides
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 9:58 am | United Nations
Côte d’Ivoire: UN hails first meeting on Ivorian soil of leaders of rival sides More >>
Colombia: UN condemns fresh war crimes by leftists
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 9:56 am | United Nations
United Nations human rights officials have accused the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Popular Army (FARC-EP) of committing new war crimes in the recent massacres of nine bus passengers and nine members of a local municipal council. More >>
HIV children in Africa to have better treatment
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 9:54 am | United Nations
Children living with HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa will have greater access to antiretrovirals and other treatments under an agreement signed this week between the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Baylor College of Medicine of ... More >>
Fair trade in wild natural resources - UN report
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 10:14 am | United Nations
With half the world’s 1.2 billion poor depending for their livelihoods on harvesting wild natural resources, ranging from cocoa and rubber to oils and spices, in a trade valued at $4.7 billion annually, the United Nations environmental agency today released ... More >>
Falling poultry consumption, bird flu threatens
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 10:08 am | United Nations
Poultry consumption is likely to fall this year in many countries in Europe, Middle East, and Africa that have been hit by bird flu due to unfounded fears of disease transmission, with declining poultry prices threatening industry profitability worldwide, ... More >>
DR Congo: UN mission to Central Africa visits
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 10:04 am | United Nations
The joint mission to Central Africa by the heads of three United Nations humanitarian agencies is now in the eastern region of the war-shattered Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where they plan to meet refugees returning home by boat from neighbouring ... More >>
Refugee smugglers claim more lives in Gulf of Aden
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 10:02 am | United Nations
In the latest grim episode of asylum-seekers and migrants dying while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that smugglers forced 137 men, women and children into deep waters off the ... More >>
Sudanese refugees can return, accord with Ethiopia
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 9:59 am | United Nations
Some 73,000 South Sudanese refugees currently in Ethiopia can start going home thanks to an agreement signed by the United Nations refugee agency and the Governments of Ethiopia and Sudan. More >>
Mozambique appeals for support after earthquake
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 9:56 am | United Nations
After an earthquake rocked this Southern African nation last week and left at least four people dead, the Mozambique Government has asked the United Nations for technical support to better manage risks and disasters, the UN’s relief coordination unit said ... More >>
Hamas choices will shape Middle East future
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 9:54 am | United Nations
Welcoming the decision of the European Union (EU) to provide emergency assistance to the Palestinian Authority, the United Nations top envoy for Middle East peace said today that the next choices that Hamas makes are the single most important variables ... More >>
Falling Poultry Consumption Due To Bird Flu
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 8:08 am | United Nations
Poultry consumption is likely to fall this year in many countries in Europe, Middle East, and Africa that have been hit by bird flu due to unfounded fears of disease transmission, with declining poultry prices threatening industry profitability worldwide, ... More >>
Refugee Smugglers Claim More Lives In Gulf Of Aden
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 8:02 am | United Nations
In the latest grim episode of asylum seekers and migrants dying while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that smugglers forced 137 men, women and children into deep waters off the ... More >>
Some 73,000 Sudanese Refugees Can Return
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 7:55 am | United Nations
Some 73,000 South Sudanese refugees currently in Ethiopia can start going home thanks to an agreement signed by the United Nations refugee agency and the Governments of Ethiopia and Sudan. More >>
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea: ‘flexibile’ on border
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 2:53 pm | United Nations
Hailing the Presidents of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea for showing “incredible flexibility” toward resolving a border dispute, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said today that the two leaders were determined to resolve the issue before the end of ... More >>
Negs over Human Rights Council could cause problem
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 2:50 pm | United Nations
Calling the most-recent draft of a Human Rights Council “a solid basis to move forward,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan cautioned today against “line-by-line negotiations” over the blueprint for a new body to replace the much-criticized Human ... More >>
Iraq: UN ready to help rebuild religious sites
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 2:46 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today confirmed its support for the Iraqi initiative to rebuild the Shiite Shrine of Imam Ali Al-Hadi bombed last week as well as other damaged religious sites in the country. More >>
