UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council sent a strong and united message to the Syrian government and opposition on Wednesday to immediately implement proposals by international envoy Kofi Annan to end the yearlong bloodshed.
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DAVOS, Switzerland: Europe's crippling debt crisis dominated the world's foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet's haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his second term as chief of the United Nations, wants to help people who rose up in the Arab Spring attain and sustain freedom and democracy.
As he embarks on a new five-year term starting New (...)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is expected to approve a U.N. resolution that calls for an immediate end to violence in Yemen and a transfer of power from the president to his deputy.
Diplomats said late Thursday that the (...)
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. diplomats say the Security Council has agreed on a work schedule which will have the committee considering the Palestinian membership application produce a report by Nov. 11.
It was unclear whether the report would contain a (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Tunisia's foreign minister said Tuesday his government is ready for Oct. 23 elections, the first since a rebellion overthrew the country's longtime dictator sparking an unprecedented wave of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab (...)
UNITED NATIONS — Egypt's foreign minister said Monday his country will always respect its landmark peace treaty with Israel and is seeking ways to strengthen its "strategic relationship" with the United States.
Mohamed Kamel Amr's comments in an (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Egypt's foreign minister said Monday his country will always respect its landmark peace treaty with Israel and is seeking ways to strengthen its "strategic relationship" with the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged women world leaders Monday to reach out to the new emerging democracies in the Middle East and North Africa and help ensure that the women who demonstrated, blogged and put their lives on (...)
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Monday for urgent progress to achieve a world free of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been signed by 182 countries and ratified by 154 of them. But it needs (...)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The worst kept secret at the United Nations is that Ban Ki-moon wants a second term as secretary-general and will almost certainly get it, possibly this month. He is expected to launch his re-election campaign Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS: President Barack Obama's backing of a key Palestinian demand on the borders of its future state will help win UN recognition of a Palestinian state, Egypt's UN ambassador said Thursday.
Maged Abdelaziz linked Obama's support for (...)
UNITED NATIONS: US President Barack Obama's support for India's bid for permanent membership on the UN Security Council put the spotlight on the failure of the United Nations to reform its most powerful body.
Despite widespread agreement that the (...)
NEW YORK: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "the future belongs to Iran," and challenged the United States to accept that his country has a major role in the world.
The comments came in an hour long interview Sunday with The (...)
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Economic and Social Council voted Monday to accredit the US-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission after strong lobbying by the Obama administration.
The group will now be able to attend UN meetings, (...)
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly reached an "informal agreement" to establish a single UN body with greater clout to promote equality for women, a UN official said Thursday.
Jamal Benomar, chief of staff to the General Assembly (...)
What do actress Geena Davis, Britain s Duchess of York, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists have in common?
They re all committed to empowering women.
At a UN event Monday promoting gender (...)
UNITED NATIONS: A UN human rights investigator warned the United States Tuesday that its use of unmanned warplanes to carry out targeted executions may violate international law.
Philip Alston said that unless the Obama administration explains (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed at the public admission by Lebanon s Hezbollah group that it provided support to Gaza-based fighters from Egypt and condemns the unwarranted interference in Egypt s domestic affairs, a UN (...)
UNITED NATIONS: The United States late Saturday blocked approval of a UN Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and expressing serious concern at the escalation of violence following Israel s ground (...)
UNITED NATIONS: The United States, Britain, France and other members walked out of a closed meeting of the UN Security Council late Wednesday after Libya compared the situation in Gaza to Nazi concentration camps in World War II, council diplomats (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Children in Sudan are still being recruited to fight and suffer a wide range of abuse, from killings and abductions to rape and sexual violence, especially in Darfur, according to a new UN report.
In the report to the UN Security (...)
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UNITED NATIONS: Egypt, Angola and Qatar easily won seats on the council despite opposition from human rights groups that said they did not deserve a spot on the council because of their bad human rights records.
Belarus was (...)
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed officials from Egypt, the United States, China, and Japan to top UN posts Friday and accepted the resignation of 17 senior staff members as part of a long-awaited overhaul (...)
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UNITED NATIONS: Arab nations want the UN Security Council to join in launching a new peace process to end the broader Arab-Israeli conflict, saying the road map unveiled in 2003 to establish a Palestinian state is dead.
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