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    UN chief wants new look at UN Georgia mission (AP)
    AP - The U.N. mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and the separatist Abkhazia region should be extended for four months to explore whether to continue U.N. involvement following the Georgian-Russian war, the U.N. chief said Monday. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:02:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UNHCR says still short on funds (Reuters)

    Tourists take a picture in front of the United Nations European headquarters entrance in Geneva August 20, 2008. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)Reuters - The United Nations has saved millions of dollars by scaling back its refugee agency's Swiss headquarters but remains short of funds, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Monday.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:35:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    Pakistan officials: Suspected US strikes kill 12 (AP)

    A Pakistani police officer stands guard at a checkpoint in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. A blast on Thursday killed four people in a failed bid to assassinate a prominent anti-Taliban politician in the region. The U.N. declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff Thursday and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on a par with Kabul and Somalia. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Two suspected U.S. missile strikes Friday on villages close to the border with Afghanistan killed at least 12 people, most of them militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.


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    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:30:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    U.N. wants more troops in Congo as violence mounts (Reuters)
    Reuters - The United Nations' top official in the Democratic Republic of Congo asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday for extra troops to help halt the spread of violence in the country's eastern provinces. -- read full article
    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:29:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN envoy says Congo fighting could escalate (AP)
    AP - The top U.N. envoy to Congo warned Friday that renewed fighting in eastern Congo has heightened ethnic tensions and could lead to the renewal of a wider conflict in central Africa. -- read full article
    Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:23:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    Pakistan officials: Suspected US strikes kill 12 (AP)

    Pakistani men offer funeral prayers for those killed in a suicide attack in Charsadda, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. A blast on Thursday killed four people in a failed bid to assassinate a prominent anti-Taliban politician in the region. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Two suspected U.S. missile strikes Friday on villages close to the border with Afghanistan killed at least 12 people, most of them militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.


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    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:23:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN seeks aid for Syria's worst drought in 40 years (AFP)

    Syrians cool of with water from a public fountain in Damascus, 2000. Syria has been hit by the worst drought in 40 years, endangering the livelihoods of one million people, the United Nations warned as it appealed for 20 million dollars in aid.(AFP/File/Louai Beshara)AFP - Syria has been hit by the worst drought in 40 years, endangering the livelihoods of one million people, the United Nations warned Friday as it appealed for 20 million dollars in aid.


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    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:25:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN in Kosovo reopens court in tense north (AP)
    AP - International judges and prosecutors began working in Kosovo's ethnically divided north on Friday, more than six months after violent clashes forced them to evacuate. -- read full article
    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:25:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN: 80 dead, 100 wounded in Somalia fighting (AP)
    AP - The United Nations says fighting has killed at least 80 civilians in Somalia's capital over the last two weeks. More than 100 people have been injured. -- read full article
    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:11:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN seeks new fight against Somali pirates (AP)
    AP - A proposed U.N. resolution calls on all countries with a stake in maritime safety to send military ships and aircraft to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, according to a draft obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. -- read full article
    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:29:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    Japan to send military officers to U.N. in Sudan (Reuters)

    South African soldiers serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) stand atop a vehicle during a patrol to the village of Kafod, North Darfur, July 2, 2008. (Albany Associates/Stuart Price/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Japan will send two army officers to Sudan, probably this month, to take part in a United Nations operation monitoring a peace agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.


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    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:16:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    Pakistan official: War until 'terror free' (AP)

    Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani talks with reporters as he arrives at the airport in Multan, Pakistan, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. The U.N. ordered children of its international staff to leave the Pakistani capital and other areas it considered unsafe, raising its security level following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel, the world body said Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Pakistan's war against Islamic extremists will go on until the country is "terrorism-free," a senior official said Friday after mounting violence prompted the United Nations to raise its security stance.


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    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:58:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN to withdraw children of staff in Islamabad: official (AFP)

    A Pakistani security personnel in front of the devastated Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in September 2008. The United Nations and Britain said Thursday that they will withdraw the children of international staff from Pakistan in the wake of the deadly bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - The United Nations will withdraw the children of its foreign staff based in the Pakistani capital Islamabad after last month's bombing at the Marriott Hotel, a senior UN official said Thursday.


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    Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:24:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN criticises Iraq's failure to include minorities in vote law (AFP)

    Lawmakers listen to proceedings during an Iraqi Parliament session held in Baghdad, 2006. The United Nations special representative to Iraq criticised the country's MPs for passing voting legislation that fails to represent the embattled nation's minority communities.(AFP/Pool/File/Wathiq Khuzaie)AFP - The United Nations special representative to Iraq on Thursday criticised the country's MPs for passing voting legislation that fails to represent the embattled nation's minority communities.


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    Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:29:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
    UN raises Pakistan security after hotel bombing (AP)

    Map locates Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Quetta, which the United Nations has determined are unsafe for children of its international staff in PakistanAP - The U.N. ordered children of its international staff to leave the Pakistani capital and other areas it considered unsafe, raising its security level following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel, officials said Thursday.


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    Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:57:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
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