AFP - The foreign ministers of estranged neighbours Armenia and Turkey will meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at the end of September, Armenia said Sunday.
AP - Nearly every nation pledged to do more to combat terrorism with the approval Friday of a U.N. General Assembly resolution that does not include a definition of such activities or say anything about states that engage in terrorist acts. -- read full article
AP - A key Czech leader said Friday that a resurgent Russia has begun testing the West and warned that Ukraine's strategic Crimea peninsula could become a target. -- read full article
AP - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.
AFP - Taiwan on Friday denied a media report it routinely offers extra aid to allies in exchange for their support in its campaign to join the United Nations.
AFP - The United Nations on Friday launched a bid to designate Iraq's famed marshlands, which were ravaged by Saddam Hussein, a World Heritage site after a four-year restoration project.
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council
parried on Thursday a request from Somalia to send a
peace-keeping force to the violence-torn nation, saying it
would consider doing so when conditions there had improved.
AP - In criticism aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and the European Union, a U.N. report said Thursday that rich nations haven't delivered on promises to help the world's poorest nations and must increase aid by $18 billion a year. -- read full article
Reuters - Philippine Muslim guerrillas halted a
United Nations convoy and seized food supplies intended for
tens of thousands of people displaced by weeks of fighting on a
southern island, police said on Friday.
AFP - Rival Cypriot leaders launched intensive talks on Wednesday on reunifying the Mediterranean island which the United Nations described as a "historic" move after three decades of failed diplomacy.
AFP - The US ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday slammed as "patently false" press reports that he had "unauthorized" contacts with Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani presidential contender and widower of slain Benazir Bhutto.
AP - The top American diplomat to the United Nations defended his dealings with Pakistani officials Wednesday, saying he never acted as adviser to a candidate for Pakistan's presidency. -- read full article
AP - A United Nations peacekeeper in south Lebanon was killed by an explosion Wednesday while clearing unexploded ordnance, a U.N. official said. -- read full article
