AFP - Holy sites in Israel, the residence of a former South Pacific island chief and an ancient Ottoman town in central Albania were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List on Tuesday.
AFP - The United States said Tuesday it was confident proposed sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime would be adopted by the UN Security Council this week despite strong objections from South Africa and Russia.
AP - A majority of U.N. Security Council member countries support a proposal to sanction Zimbabwe and freeze the assets of President Robert Mugabe, French and U.S. officials said Tuesday, but Russia warned it might veto the plan. -- read full article
AP - A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global challenges of our time" and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets.
AFP - Afghan officials accused Pakistan Tuesday of being behind a suicide blast at the Indian embassy that left 41 people dead, saying the attack had the hallmarks of its intelligence agency.
AP - The United Nations in Sudan says a U.N. military observer and a monitor from Sudan's army have been shot and wounded in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei. -- read full article
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council could
vote for sanctions against Zimbabwe as soon as this week,
France said on Tuesday, despite pressure from African states to
give their mediation efforts a chance first.
AFP - Holy sites in Israel, the residence of a former South Pacific island chief and an ancient Ottoman town in central Albania were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List on Tuesday.
AFP - The US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday that he was confident a sanctions resolution targeting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his cronies would be passed by the Security Council this week.
AFP - The US State Department on Monday condemned the murder of a top United Nations envoy in Somalia as "a brutal act" aimed at silencing moderates who seek peace.
AFP - The United Nations led worldwide condemnation of the bombing of India's embassy in Afghanistan, which left 41 dead in one of the worst attacks in the country since the fall of the Taliban.
AP - The Mexican government says UNESCO has added a Monarch butterfly reserve in southern Mexico to its list of World Heritage sites. -- read full article
AP - An 11th century temple that sits on Cambodia's disputed border zone with Thailand was designated as a world heritage site, a UNESCO official said Monday. -- read full article
AFP - A Hindu temple in Cambodia, two historic Malaysian trading towns and an early agricultural site from Papua New Guinea were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List on Monday.
