AFP - The United Nations said Sunday its offices in the rebel-controlled north of Sri Lanka had been looted after aid workers were evacuated last week.

AFP - The Maoist prime minister of Nepal, the world's newest republic, left on Saturday for the United States where he was due to meet President George W. Bush and address the United Nations.

AFP - Russia said Saturday it had rejected US proposals for new UN Security Council measures against Iran over its suspect nuclear programme amid deteriorating ties between Moscow and Washington.

AFP - The United Nations should set up a panel to investigate "severe" violations of human rights in nuclear-armed North Korea, an expert group said in a report Friday.

Reuters - The leaders of Georgia and Ukraine go to the United Nations next week hoping to shore up Western support for their future NATO accession faced with a militarily resurgent Russia.

Reuters - Russia is against the United Nations taking any extra measures on Iran over its nuclear program for now, and thinks efforts towards dialogue should continue, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

Reuters - The United States said on Friday that China's political rival, Taiwan, should be given a role in the United Nations, which has refused to recognize the island on 16 separate occasions, the latest this week.

Reuters - A new chill in East-West relations overhangs next week's U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders, the first major international meeting since Russia invaded Georgia last month.

AFP - Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who brokered an end to Kenya's worst political crisis, on Friday defended a controversial report on the disputed 2007 polls and urged all to follow its recommendations.

AFP - Thousands of vulnerable civilians are feared to have been displaced by a recent upsurge of fighting in north Darfur, the United Nations head of humanitarian affairs for Sudan warned on Friday.

AP - Peace talks by Israel and the Palestinians are at a crossroads 10 months after their leaders agreed to try to reach an accord this year and both sides need to step up their efforts to meet that goal, the United Nations' Mideast envoy said Thursday.

AFP - Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who brokered an end to Kenya's worst political crisis, urged all parties Friday to implement the recommendations of a report on the disputed December presidential poll.

Reuters - The United Nations has again ruled out a U.N. role for Taiwan, a Taipei official said on Thursday, despite a recent thaw in relations with China which considers the island a breakaway province.