AP - A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
AFP - Cambodia has asked the United Nations to intervene in its border dispute with Thailand, a Thai official said on Saturday, the fifth day of a tense stand-off between the neighbours.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's main opposition party could
sign an agreement as early as Monday to begin substantive talks
with President Robert Mugabe's party on ending a political
impasse that has worsened the country's severe economic crisis,
opposition officials said on Saturday. -- read full article
Reuters - Algeria urged other Arab nations on
Saturday to press the United Nations Security Council to
prevent the International Criminal Court (ICC) from issuing an
arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. -- read full article
AP - A United Nations decision to end aid flights to Myanmar next month could hurt relief efforts already struggling to reach millions of survivors with adequate food and water, humanitarian groups said Friday. -- read full article
AP - A South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country's highest court will be the next U.N. human rights commissioner, diplomatic and U.N. officials said Friday. -- read full article
Reuters - Despite Russian objections,
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report made public on
Thursday he was pushing ahead with a plan to hand over policing
functions in Kosovo to the European Union. -- read full article
Reuters - The International Criminal
Court's top prosecutor said on Thursday he would not drop his
call for the arrest on genocide charges of Sudan's president,
but the United Nations said the court must weigh the impact of
its work.
AP - With an arrest warrant pending against Sudan's president, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Thursday he was focusing on another war crime case in Darfur involving two suspected rebel commanders allegedly directing attacks against peacekeepers.
AFP - Sri Lanka's government on Thursday unveiled new restrictions on how long United Nations and other foreign aid staff are allowed to work on the war-torn island.
AP - The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Thursday his request for a warrant to arrest the Sudanese president on genocide charges was not timed to the court's 10th anniversary celebration.
Reuters - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has
for the first time since 2003 redeployed expatriate staff to
Iraq, the United Nations agency said on Thursday. -- read full article
Reuters - U.N. humanitarian chief John
Holmes said on Wednesday he would visit Myanmar next week to
check on aid delivery to the isolated country that initially
shut out foreign relief workers after a deadly cyclone in May.
Reuters - The global food crisis is
largely responsible for driving up the United Nations' need for
funding to confront disasters and emergencies around the world
this year by one-fifth, the U.N. said on Wednesday.
