AP - Disaster recovery and relief efforts are progressing well in Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas, despite logistical obstacles, a United Nations agency said Monday.
AP - Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Somalia's capital on Sunday night, killing one of the country's senior U.N. officials and wounding his son and another man, a witness and a family member said. -- read full article
AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told his fellow South Koreans on Friday to trust and support the country's leaders following weeks of protests against U.S. beef imports that have rocked the government.
Reuters - The United States said on Thursday it
expects the U.N. Security Council to vote next week on
sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and top
aides in response to last week's widely condemned election.
AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called on South Korea to contribute more foreign aid and peacekeepers abroad, saying Friday his homeland owes the international community for its help rebuilding from the Korean War.
AP - U.N. officials decided Thursday to retain the eastern German city of Dresden as a World Heritage Site for now despite earlier warnings that the construction of a bridge endangered its status.
AP - Nepal's government has decided to ask the United Nations to continue a peacekeeping mission in the country for another six months, an official said Friday.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited his homeland, South Korea, on Thursday for the first time since taking the top job at the world body last year.
Reuters - Afghanistan's insurgency can be
overcome, not only by military means but by building up the
state and getting the economy going, the United Nations envoy
to Afghanistan said on Thursday.
AFP - The United States on Thursday formally submitted a sanctions resolution in the UN Security Council that would target Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and 11 of his aides.
AFP - Children in Afghanistan suffer more than in any other country in the world from violence, war and poverty, and sometimes become suicide bombers, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday.
Reuters - The United States said on Thursday it
expects the U.N. Security Council to vote next week on
sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and top
aides in response to last week's widely condemned election.
Reuters - The U.S. envoy for Darfur
expressed disappointment on Wednesday that the United Nations
had not met a U.S. goal for reinforcing peacekeepers in the
area, calling progress so far "absolutely unacceptable."
AP - The U.S. pressed fellow U.N. Security Council members Wednesday to impose sanctions to push for change in Zimbabwe, where leaders cannot agree whether to even talk about how to resolve their crisis amid fears of worsening political violence.
AFP - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee began deliberations Wednesday in this oldest of Canadian cities over which of the globe's architectural and natural wonders to add to its list of protected sites.
