UN team to probe September killings in Guinea
New York - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged three investigators to work independently to assess the facts that led to the deaths of scores of people who demonstrated against the government in Guinea in September. Moha...
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Obama to travel to Copenhagen climate summit - Summary
Washington - US President Barack Obama will be in Copenhagen during the early stages of a major United Nations summit aimed at curtailing global climate change, the White House said Wednesday. The Obama administration also proposed cutting its domest...
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ANALYSIS:Bid or bluff as the EU plays climate-change poker?
Luxembourg - If you want poker players to show you their cards, you have to put your own hand on the table first. That was the philosophy which led the European Union on Wednesday to publish a near-complete set of demands for United Nations climate-c...
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UN rights expert to make first ever trip to Zimbabwe
Geneva - A United Nations special expert on human rights will visit Zimbabwe later this month at the invitation of Harare, it was announced Friday, in the first such trip of its kind. It is the first time ever that the Zimbabwean authorities have ex...
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UN approves universal mobile phone charger
Geneva - The United Nations telecommunications unit has announced it's found the solution to the lack of universality in chargers for mobile phones. The International Telecommunications Union in Geneva says it has approved an energy-efficient one-ch...
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UN to reopen debate on Gaza war crimes report - Summary
Geneva - The United Nations Human Rights Council said Tuesday it will hold a special session to debate the war crimes report of Justice Richard Goldstone later this week. The special session would be held at the request of the Palestinian diplomatic ...
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UN to reopen debate on Gaza war crimes report
Geneva - The United Nations Human Rights Council said Tuesday it will hold a special session to debate the war crimes report of Justice Richard Goldstone later this week. The special session would be held at the request of the Palestinian diplomatic ...
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Switzerland condemns 'barbaric' attack on UN in Kabul
Geneva - Switzerland on Wednesday strongly condemned as barbaric the attack in the Afghan capital Kabul which killed nine people, including six employees of the United Nations. The attack was intended to undermine the efforts of the world communit...
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UN deminer killed in Cyprus
Athens/Nicosia - A UN expert was killed Wednesday in the divided eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus while clearing landmines, the United Nations said. Femisberto Novele, a national from Mozambique, died in an explosion while clearing away a minef...
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UN grants observer status to International Olympic Committee
New York - The International Olympic Committee was granted observer status by the United Nations general assembly, it emerged Tuesday. The UN general assembly late Monday night also adopted a resolution to observe the Olympic Truce at the Vancouver 2...
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Singapore to cut emissions if other countries do their bit
Singapore - Singapore is prepared to cut carbon emissions going into the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, but only if other countries do their bit as well, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a speech late Friday. O...
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UN rapporteur detained at Harare airport
Harare - Manfred Nowak, United Nations special rapporteur on torture, was being detained Wednesday night at Harare airport as President Robert Mugabe's administration appeared to try to prevent his latest mission. Nowak was invited in February by Jus...
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UN wants to avoid mistakes in Afghanistan's first vote - Summary
New York - The United Nations wants to avoid a repeat of the painful lessons of the fraud-tainted August 20 Afghan presidential election, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. The UN, which monitored the first vote, should not recruit the ...
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