AP - The U.N. Security Council renewed a push for civilian rule in Congo's militia-plagued east on Sunday as efforts continue to disarm rebel groups and finally restore peace to the ravaged region. -- read full article
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:13:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - Iran protested to the United Nations on Saturday over a warning by an Israeli minister that it faces attack over its contested nuclear programme, the official IRNA news agency reported.
AP - The U.N. Security Council on Saturday praised Congolese President Joseph Kabila's vision for the country while urging a key rebel group to disarm and participate in talks to bring peace to the war-ravaged region. -- read full article
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:43:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
Reuters - Iran demanded action from the U.N.
Security Council about an Israeli threat to attack its nuclear
sites if it continues uranium enrichment, according to a letter
released on Saturday by Iranian U.N. Ambassador Mohammad
Khazaee. -- read full article
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:51:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
Reuters - U.N. envoys met Congo President Joseph
Kabila on Saturday and backed his plans to disarm and expel
Rwandan rebels behind years of strife, and to refocus the
biggest U.N. peace force on rebuilding his shattered nation. -- read full article
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:25:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - Police forced Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll, his party said after he was detained for the second time in a week.
AP - The United States says it is fed up with the United Nations Human Rights Council and will only participate in its debates when absolutely necessary. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:31:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
Reuters - In an attempt to further distance
itself from the U.N. Human Rights Council, the United States
said on Friday it would only engage the body when there was an
issue of "deep national interest." -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:33:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - Pakistan's new government has officially asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said Friday.
AP - The United Nations Security Council received assurances from Chad and Sudan that they will try to reconcile following last month's rebel attack on Sudan's capital that Khartoum blamed on Chad, France's ambassador to the U.N. said Friday.
AFP - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai was forced Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll this month after being detained by police for the second time in a week.
AP - World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.
Reuters - The United States has quietly informed
Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N.
Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources said on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:52:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - A United Nations committee on Friday asked the United States to investigate claims that children detained by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan have been subject to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment."
Reuters - United Nations experts on child rights
criticized the United States on Friday over detention of
juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced
concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment.
