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Canada accuses Qatar of trying to buy UN agency

15 days ago

Canada is accusing Qatar of trying to buy its way into relocating the United Nations civil aviation agency to the tiny emirate, and is vowing to fight "tooth and nail" to keep it in its Montreal...

UN panel investigating 20 massacres in Syria

68 days ago

The United Nations estimates more than 70,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war, which started two years ago as a popular uprising against Assad's authoritarian rule.

U.S. official escalates criticism of Iran at U.N. atomic agency

73 days ago

U.S. official escalates criticism of Iran at U.N. atomic agency

UN diplomat: UN vote set on North Korea sanctions

73 days ago

A U.N. diplomat says the Security Council will vote Thursday on a U.S.-China draft resolution that would impose some of the strongest sanctions ever ordered by the United Nations against North...

N. Korea to face new sanctions from U.N.

74 days ago

It reflected the U.N. Security Council's growing anger over the country's defiance of three previous rounds of sanctions aimed at halting nuclear and missile tests.

Former UN chief says violence could mar Kenya vote

85 days ago

The former head of the United Nations, who helped save Kenya from spiraling deeper into election violence five years ago, is warning that intimidation, ethnic rivalry and violence could undermine...

U.N. numbers on Syrians in need of help far too low, survey suggests

89 days ago

""It's such a chaotic situation inside Syria, I think you are right to be skeptical of any numbers you hear, but we're using the U.N.'s numbers, and those are the best available.

U.N. condemns North Korea nuclear test, but no clear answer to what happens now

95 days ago

South Korea's intelligence service also warned that its northern neighbor may conduct yet another test in addition to a long-range missile launch in defiance of sanctions passed by the United...

Seismic readings point to new North Korea nuclear test; South Korea asks for U.N...

96 days ago

But frustrations with Pyongyang in China, which is currently in the middle of Chinese New Year celebrations, might well lend support to stronger sanctions by the U.N. Security Council.

UN panel concludes Israeli settlements are illegal

108 days ago

The Israeli government has persisted in settling Palestinian-occupied territorities, including East Jerusalem and the West Bank, "despite all the pertinent United Nations resolutions declaring...

Report: UN doc links Britons to Somalia kidnapping

112 days ago

The Times of London says a secret section of a United Nations report has linked British citizens with Somali piracy.

U.N. investigates drone strikes

114 days ago

A U.N. expert launched a special investigation Thursday into drone warfare and targeted killings, which the United States relies on as a front-line weapon in its global war against al Qaeda.

Key source for Syrian death toll questions accuracy of recent UN-sponsored report

134 days ago

Rahman said, however, that he intends to present evidence to the United Nations that some of the death reports its study used included faked names and people who died from causes unrelated to the...

U.N. Security Council approves military action in Mali

149 days ago

A resolution adopted by the U.N.'s most powerful body stressed that there must be a two-track plan, political and military, to reunify the country, which has been in turmoil since a coup in March.

Santa arrives early for UN secretary-general

152 days ago

The United Nations began renovating its now 60-year-old iconic steel and glass headquarters overlooking New York's East River in May 2008.

China submits oceanic claims to United Nations

156 days ago

China has provided the United Nations with detailed claims to waters in the East China Sea, apparently padding out its legal argument in an ongoing territorial dispute with Japan.

Chile tells UN court its border with Peru is fixed

163 days ago

Lawyers for Chile's government argued Thursday that judges at the United Nations' highest court should reject a request by Peru to draw a maritime boundary between the two countries, arguing the...

Republican opposition downs UN disability treaty

165 days ago

Led by Republican opposition, the Senate on Tuesday rejected a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled that is modeled after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.

UN court hears Peru-Chile sea border dispute

166 days ago

The Peruvian government is asking the United Nations' highest court to set a maritime border between Peru and Chile, in a case that will carve up control over the rich seas off the two Andean...

Israel freezes Palestinian tax revenue as Abbas returns from U.N.

167 days ago

The Israeli step was the second response to the vote last week at the U.N. General Assembly, which granted the Palestinians the status of a "nonmember observer state.

Palestinian president returns triumphantly from UN

167 days ago

Netanyahu said Abbas' speech at the U.N., in which he accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and omitted any reference of the Jewish connection to the holy land, was filled with incitement and hate.

Israelis decry Germany's abstention on U.N. Palestine vote

169 days ago

Israeli officials had long known that they would be on the losing end of the U.N. General Assembly's vote on whether to grant Palestine official status as a non-member observer state.

U.N. makes Palestine an 'observer state'

170 days ago

"The vote came on the anniversary of the vote in 1947 when the U.N. adopted the resolution that partitioned what was then Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.

Web access battles brew before UN conference

174 days ago

She noted that U.N. treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights take precedence over any regulations ITU may adopt that could relate to freedom of expression.

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