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G77 plus China eye end to poverty by 2030, new UN role A summit of G77 leaders plus China wrapped up Sunday with a call for an end to poverty by 2030, after a demand by Bolivia's President Evo Morales to eliminate the UN Security Council.
16 June 2014 12:04
New Iran nuclear talks as time runs short Iran and world powers' high-stakes nuclear talks enter a critical fifth round in Vienna on Monday, with both sides still far apart on crucial issues five weeks before a deadline for a deal.
16 June 2014 10:44
Abdullah slams Afghan election officials for 'fraud' Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah accused senior election officials of serious fraud, opening a dispute over the vote count that could threaten a smooth transition of power.
16 June 2014 10:14
US mulls air strikes as Iraq militants advance on Baghdad Militants have seized the Iraqi city of Tikrit as a jihadist offensive sweeps closer to Baghdad, prompting the UN Security Council to convene crisis talks Thursday while the US mulls air strikes on the rebels.
12 June 2014 14:11
$210 million needed now for Bosnia floods: UN The United Nations estimates it will cost $210 million to cover immediate priority needs for the next six months in Bosnia, alone, after devastating floods hit the region, an official said.
10 June 2014 14:11
Subway workers suspend strike ahead of World Cup Subway workers in Sao Paulo suspended Monday a strike that has caused traffic chaos in the World Cup host city but warned the work-stoppage could resume when the tournament kicks off.
10 June 2014 13:09
Jolie and Hague to open largest ever summit on rape in war Co-hosts Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague will on Tuesday open a four-day summit on ending sexual violence in conflict, the biggest meeting ever held on the subject.
10 June 2014 12:10
38 killed in DR Congo ethnic violence: government A total of 38 people died in ethnic violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend, many massacred when a church was set ablaze, the government said.
10 June 2014 11:14
62 African migrants, crew drown in boat tragedy off Yemen: UN Sixty migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the UN said.
08 June 2014 22:10
Heavy clashes, suicide bombings kill 36 in north Iraq Heavy fighting between security forces and militants and twin suicide bombings killed 36 people in north Iraq Friday, as deadly violence shook other parts of the country.
07 June 2014 12:06
UN inquiry finds war crimes on both sides in C. Africa UN investigators say talk of genocide or ethnic cleaning in the Central African Republic is premature, but that evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity exists on both sides.
06 June 2014 12:50
Oceans worth up to $222 bln annually in CO2 capture By absorbing carbon emissions from the atmosphere, the seas avert climate damage worth up to $222 billion (163 billion euros) every year, according to an estimate released.
06 June 2014 10:53
Images show farm work at N. Korea prison camp North Korea has increased economic linkages with a prison camp where inmates are working by hand in agriculture, according to satellite imagery released Thursday by a human rights group.
05 June 2014 11:14
Syria's Assad coasts to re-election in 'farce' polls Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected Syria's president with 88.7 percent of the vote after a poll labelled a farce by rebels fighting to overthrow him, whose outcome was never in doubt.
05 June 2014 10:43
Global protest reads names of 100,000 Syria dead Activists began reading the names of 100,000 people killed in Syria outside UN headquarters on Monday, in a modest launch of what they hope will be a global protest.
03 June 2014 11:33
World No Tobacco Day: WHO urged not to snuff out e-cig The e-cigarette was pushed centre stage ahead of World No Tobacco Day, with doctors and policy experts urging the UN's health agency to embrace the gadget as a life saver.
30 May 2014 03:29
After 8,000 cholera deaths, Haiti faces new epidemic Hard-hit by a cholera epidemic that started in 2010, Haiti now faces a new threat in the expanding chikungunya virus, authorities said
29 May 2014 12:02
Drastic change in the world financial system required: Nazarbayev There is a need to rethink the global financial system, the Kazakhstan president declared at the VII Astana Economic Forum.
28 May 2014 19:18
'We know where missing girls are': Nigeria's top brass Nigeria's highest ranking military officer on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to the families of more than 200 schoolgirls held by Boko Haram militants, revealing they had located the missing teenagers.
27 May 2014 10:24
Drugs case against Tunisia blogger dismissed A prominent Tunisian blogger who accused police of fabricating drugs charges against him walked free from court on Friday after a judge threw out the case.
25 May 2014 17:41
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