AFP - International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday pleaded with the UN Security Council to demand Khartoum arrest two Darfur war crimes suspects.
AP - Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that allegations his government is involved in crimes against humanity in Darfur are "fictitious and vicious" and harmful to the prospects of peace.
AP - Delegates to a U.N. summit on rising food prices worked late into the night Wednesday trying to forge a compromise on a strategy to combat a crisis that is increasing hunger worldwide.
AP - Two U.N. war crimes tribunals appealed to the Security Council on Wednesday for support in pressuring Serbia and Rwanda to do more to hunt down their most-wanted fugitives. -- read full article
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AP - The U.N. Security Council wants a firsthand look at the conflict in Darfur that has left some 300,000 people dead, forced 2.5 million to flee their homes and shown no sign of a political solution.
Reuters - The United Nations urged the world
on Thursday to kick an all-consuming addiction to carbon
dioxide and said everyone must take steps to fight climate
change.
Reuters - Diplomats from the U.N.
Security Council flew into Sudan's western Darfur region on
Thursday to see the effects of five years of conflict and what
can be done to end it.
Reuters - U.N. authorities in Kosovo expect
instructions within days on how to proceed after June 15, when
Albanians hope to receive a raft of new powers under their
first state constitution, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.
AP - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Wednesday that progress is being made at a U.N. summit on determining the role that biofuels are playing in driving up food prices to the point of provoking riots in some countries.
AP - Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that allegations his government is involved in crimes against humanity in Darfur are "fictitious and vicious" and harmful to the prospects of peace.
Reuters - U.N. Security Council envoys pressed
Sudan's government on Wednesday to avert a return to civil war
with the south and over the separate conflict in its western
Darfur region.
Reuters - A former Nicaraguan leftist
foreign minister who has been a sharp critic of U.S.
governments was elected on Wednesday as the next president of
the U.N. General Assembly. -- read full article
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AFP - The United Nations apologised Wednesday to an Iranian journalist who was barred from a food summit in Rome, allegedly due to opposition from the Islamic state whose president was among participants here.
Reuters - The United States suspended talks with
Sudan on normalizing relations on Tuesday, saying leaders from
the north and south were not serious about ending clashes that
have stoked fears of a return to civil war.
