AP - Iran's new offer for international talks touches on a broad range of topics, but fails to address U.N. Security Council calls for Tehran to give up uranium enrichment, according to a copy of the offer obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council
unanimously adopted a resolution on Thursday that opens the
door to a stronger U.N. presence in Somalia and possible
deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in the lawless Horn of Africa
country.
AFP - UN humanitarian chief John Holmes plans to travel to cyclone-hit Myanmar in the next days to persuade its military rulers to open up to foreign aid, the United Nations said Thursday.
AP - The United Nations said Thursday it had evacuated 250 civilian staff from the town of Abyei following three days of clashes in the oil-rich region between Sudan's army and former southern rebels.
AP - The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling for a U.N. political presence in conflict-wracked Somalia for the first time in years and setting conditions for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.
AP - The world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and is expected to grow only 1.8 percent in 2008, the United Nations said in its mid-year economic projections Thursday. -- read full article
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AP - The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering, two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute.
AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon Wednesday called an emergency meeting on Myanmar's aid crisis, as the junta refused to open up to a full-scale relief effort despite grave fears for two million survivors.
Reuters - Japan was urged by friends and critics
in the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday to
abolish the death penalty and take concrete steps to settle the
long-standing issue of wartime "comfort women." -- read full article
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AFP - The United Nations evacuated non-essential staff from the flashpoint Sudanese town of Abyei on Wednesday after deadly fighting erupted between government troops and southern ex-rebels.
Reuters - The United Nations is investigating
allegations that its peacekeepers in eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo committed sexual abuses, which aid workers
said involved paying children for sex.
AFP - The United States groped Wednesday for a way to support Lebanon's besieged pro-Western government, mulling action within the UN Security Council and speeding up modest aid deliveries to the army.
AP - The U.N. peacekeeping chief warned Wednesday of an alarming increase in violence in Darfur that has spread to the Sudanese capital and could escalate further.
Reuters - Western powers kept up the pressure on
Myanmar's generals on Thursday to allow a massive aid effort as
relief workers struggled to help an estimated 2.5 million
people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis.
