Ozone pact helped cool the planet: studyA slowdown in global warming that climate sceptics cite in favour of their cause was partly induced by one of the world's most successful environment treaties, a study said on Sunday.
11 November 2013
US, Israel 'lose UNESCO voting rights'The United States and Israel lost their UNESCO voting rights Friday after suspending funding to the organisation in 2011 over Palestinian admission, a source from the UN agency.
09 November 2013
Ban pleads for women's rights to curb Sahel fertilityUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Wednesday in Niger, the country with the world's highest fertility rate, for better reproductive health to curb the Sahel region's runaway demographic growth.
07 November 2013
Central Asia not ready for integrationKazakhstan Minister of Foreign Affairs Yerlan Idrisov believes it premature to discuss integration in Central Asia and more appropriate to think of it as cooperation.
07 November 2013
UN inquiry chief left in tears by N. Korea brutalityThe head of a UN inquiry into North Korea rights abuses told Tuesday how he had been reduced to tears by witness accounts of people who fled the hardline state.
30 October 2013
Peace envoy heads for Syria, Russia slams rebel threatsUN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi headed for Damascus to seek support for a Syria peace conference, as Russia slammed rebels for threatening those planning to attend the so-called Geneva II talks.
Car bomb kills 40 as fears mount for trapped SyriansA car bomb outside a mosque near Damascus killed at least 40 people on Friday, an NGO said, as a top UN official expressed mounting concern over hundreds of thousands of trapped civilians.
26 October 2013
Germany, Brazil want UN privacy resolutionGermany and Brazil are working on a UN General Assembly resolution to highlight international anger at US data snooping in other countries.
26 October 2013
Pakistan makes UN call for end to US drone strikesPakistan on Friday renewed demands for an end to US drone strikes on its territory as two UN experts called for greater transparency in the use of the weapons.
Global warming linked to wildfires: UN climate chiefWildfires are "absolutely" linked to global warming and increasingly intense heatwaves, the UN climate chief has said, as bushfires burned out of control in Australia.
22 October 2013
UN leader calls for speedy Maldives voteUN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday joined international opposition to the cancellation of a presidential election in the Maldives that has heightened tensions in the Indian Ocean nation.
Chemical weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace PrizeThe watchdog now overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to rid the world of the devastating weapons.
13 October 2013
UN helicopter fired on in DR CongoRebels fired on a UN helicopter Friday in a new incident highlighting tinderbox tensions in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
13 October 2013
UN Council backs Ban's Syria disarmament planThe UN Security Council on Thursday backed a plan by UN leader Ban Ki-moon for a joint mission with the global chemical arms watchdog to destroy Syria's weapons.
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