AFP - Australia's former foreign minister Alexander Downer will quit politics for a new role as United Nations special envoy for Cyprus, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd confirmed Tuesday.
AFP - The 11th-century Preah Vihear temple sits serenely on a mountaintop, just across the border from Thailand, with sweeping views over the blue-green Cambodian jungle.
AFP - The Lebanese Hezbollah militia has told Israel through the United Nations that aviator Ron Arad, who has been listed as missing in Lebanon since 1986, is dead, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
AP - Japan will send military personnel to Sudan to join U.N. peacekeeping operations in the country's first military dispatch to the African nation, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:28:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - The devastating earthquake in China last month caused around $6 billion in damages for farmers in Sichuan province and killed millions of farm animals, a U.N. agency said Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:00:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China on Monday to back U.N. Security Council action to punish Zimbabwe, saying the time for mere statements was over.
AFP - Iraq said on Sunday it plans to file lawsuits against a group of companies and individuals in US courts over their alleged role in a United Nations oil-for-food scam under Saddam Hussein's regime.
AFP - Kosovo's Serbs inaugurated their own assembly Saturday in defiance of the United Nations and Kosovo's Albanian majority who proclaimed independence four months ago.
Reuters - Somali gunmen released two United
Nations workers from Sweden and Denmark hours after kidnapping
them in the Bakool region of southern Somalia on Saturday, U.N.
officials said. -- read full article
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:28:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - Two mine-clearing experts -- a Dane and a Swede -- were released Saturday along with a local colleague hours after they were kidnapped by Islamist militants in Somalia, the United Nations said.
AFP - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday named top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as his representative on the national security council, of which Jalili is already secretary, state media reported.
AFP - The UN Security Council on Friday failed to agree on declaring Zimbabwe's runoff election illegitimate in the face of South African opposition but the United States said it was considering sanctions against Harare.
AP - The U.N. Security Council expressed "deep regret" at the voting in Zimbabwe Friday, saying President Robert Mugabe's unopposed re-election was not the result of a fair process.
