AP - Global investors plowed $148 billion into new wind, solar and other alternative energy assets last year, in what the United Nations describes as a "green energy gold rush" gaining speed the last several years. -- read full article
Reuters - Members of the executive board
of the U.N. Development Program would like the agency to resume
its work in communist North Korea, from which it pulled out
last year amid U.S. charges of financial mismanagement.
AP - Rich and poor nations have more in common this year — a growing sense of economic insecurity, the U.N. says in an annual survey of world economic and social trends released Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said the United Nations wants to strengthen its partnership with a rising China, during visit to Beijing on Wednesday focused on global challenges such as food security and soaring energy prices.
Reuters - Somali gunmen have kidnapped five
local employees of an Italian charity and the United Nations in
the latest attack on humanitarian staff in the country, the
head of the Italian group said on Tuesday.
AFP - A new humanitarian action plan is needed for Afghanistan, where people are being hit by resurgent fighting and a food shortage, the United Nations top official on humanitarian aid said Tuesday.
AFP - Thailand's government will not appeal a ruling that suspended its endorsement of Cambodia's bid to see a disputed Hindu temple granted World Heritage status, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
AFP - The United States is preparing a new sanctions resolution to the UN Security Council after the controversial runoff election in Zimbabwe, the US Ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
Reuters - The criminal justice system in
the U.S. state of Alabama needs to be improved to ensure that
no innocent people are executed but officials there seem
indifferent to the problem, a U.N. envoy said on Monday. -- read full article
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Reuters - The Iraqi government sued dozens of
companies, including oil giant Chevron Corp., for more than $10
billion on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for-food
program.
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.
