AP - Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops are gaining the upper hand but the government still needs outside help maintaining control, Iraq's foreign minister told the U.N. Security Council on Friday.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said
on Friday liberation war veterans would take up arms if he
loses a June 27 presidential run-off vote.
AFP - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said Friday they had released 27 more child soldiers, and contested a United Nations estimate that over 1,000 under-age fighters were still in rebel ranks.
AFP - Egypt's Culture Minister Faruq Hosni who is a candidate to head UNESCO said he was prepared to visit Israel, after stirring a row by saying he would burn its books, in an interview published on Friday.
Reuters - Serbia on Friday rejected a proposed
European Union police mission for Kosovo and accused U.N.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of overreaching his powers in its
former province.
Reuters - Drought in Ethiopia has caused food
shortages, killed livestock and more than doubled the number of
people needing urgent humanitarian aid to 5 million, the United
Nations said on Friday.
AP - Queen Elizabeth II, Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling and a clutch of Hollywood stars have all given generously to help Myanmar's cyclone victims, but the U.N. says government donations for its relief effort are falling short.
AFP - The White House said Thursday it was "deeply troubled" by reports that a Zimbabwe opposition figure had been arrested and said the UN Security Council must act now to end pre-election violence.
Reuters - The United Nations and NATO rushed on
Thursday to iron out snags in the troubled international
security presence for Kosovo, just days ahead of its
constitution coming into force.
AP - The Bush administration says Zimbabwe's government is stooping to new lows to try to keep its grip on power ahead of a hotly contested presidential run-off election and is calling for immediate action by the U.N. Security Council.
AP - The U.N. Security Council joined the United States Thursday in condemning Eritrean military action this week that left nine Djiboutians dead. -- read full article
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AFP - The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned Eritrea for recent borders raids against Djibouti that have killed at least six soldiers this week.
Reuters - The United States called for urgent U.N.
Security Council talks on Zimbabwe because it said President
Robert Mugabe had ignored international calls to end political
violence ahead of a presidential election run-off.
