AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Wednesday for the UN Security Council and African leaders to press Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe into holding free and fair elections.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised to send a "strong message" to Zimbabwe on the importance of a transparent election when she presides over United Nations debate Thursday.
AFP - Pilot error was to blame for the crash of a United Nations helicopter in Nepal in March which killed 10 people, an investigating official said Wednesday.
AP - A Dutch court began hearings Wednesday about whether survivors of a 1995 massacre of Muslims in Bosnia — Europe's worst mass killing since World War II — can sue the United Nations for failing to prevent the slaughter. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:48:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - Colombia's coca crop — the basis for cocaine — grew by 27 percent last year, the United Nations reported Wednesday, calling the increase "a surprise and a shock" given major U.S.-funded eradication efforts.
AP - A United Nations agency warned Wednesday of the need to help Myanmar's cyclone-stricken farmers plant rice for the next growing season but said the situation was better than originally feared.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Wednesday for the UN Security Council and African leaders to press Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe into holding free and fair elections.
Reuters - United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights Louise Arbour voiced concern on Wednesday over
"taboos" on discussion in a key U.N. forum of subjects that
Islamic countries see as offending their religion.
Reuters - A United Nations envoy met Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday to discuss the political
crisis and the violence marring campaigning for this month's
presidential election run-off.
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met a top United Nations official Tuesday, a source close to the UN said, ahead of a run-off poll that rights groups and Western powers say is tainted by violence.
AP - The U.S. presidential envoy to Sudan's troubled Darfur region joined activists Tuesday in blaming the world for failing to protect residents of the African nation from widespread violence.
AFP - Pilot error was to blame for the crash of a United Nations helicopter in Nepal in March which killed 10 people, an investigating official said Wednesday.
Reuters - The United Nations is expected to name
Italian diplomat Lamberto Zannier this week as the new head of
its Kosovo mission, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:55:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - Senior UN official Haile Menkerios met with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in Harare on Tuesday ahead of a run-off presidential poll, said a source close to the United Nations.
