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Michelle Bachelet announced Friday that she is quitting as head of the UN women's agency amid mounting speculation that she will stand for a new term as president of Chile in November elections.

• 16 марта 2013, 20:48

North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un threatened to "wipe out" a South Korean island as Pyongyang came under new economic and diplomatic fire Tuesday from US sanctions and UN charges of gross rights abuses.

• 12 марта 2013, 17:56

We believe that we are politically ready to bear the international responsibility and responsibility for the global issues as a nonentity member of the Security Council: Yerlan Idrissov.

• 25 февраля 2013, 14:56

UN sanctions experts are investigating the Yemeni government's claims that Iran supplied rockets and explosives seized from a ship last month.

• 08 февраля 2013, 16:06

UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that a nuclear test by North Korea could blow up hopes of an eventual reconciliation by "tying the hands" of the South's incoming president.

• 08 февраля 2013, 15:38

A defiant North Korea on Wednesday condemned a new round of UN sanctions and hinted it might carry out a nuclear test, while ruling out a resumption of talks on denuclearising the Korean peninsula.

• 24 января 2013, 11:15

Five years after the global financial crisis hit, unemployment numbers continue to soar, with a record 202 million people worldwide expected to be officially jobless this year.

• 23 января 2013, 13:35

The UN Security Council will order sanctions against North Korea's space agency in a resolution to be passed this week condemning a ballistic launch.

• 23 января 2013, 12:46

Claims that global warming can be braked by dissolving huge quantities of rock in the sea to absorb carbon emissions are laden with flaws.

• 22 января 2013, 13:31

Delegations from some 140 countries have agreed to adopt a ground-breaking treaty limiting the use of health-hazardous mercury.

• 20 января 2013, 11:19

The UN's refugee arm said Wednesday it had permission from Thailand to access some 850 people, many thought to be from Myanmar's Rohingya minority, held after raids on hidden camps in the Thai south.

• 16 января 2013, 17:21

France has asked the United Nations to "accelerate" implementation of a resolution that enables the deployment of an international force to Mali.

• 13 января 2013, 16:52

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was set to meet top US and Russian officials Friday to discuss the Syrian conflict, a day after Damascus denounced his "bias" against President Bashar al-Assad.

• 12 января 2013, 14:35

The UN ends its peacekeeping mission in East Timor Monday after 13 years of boots on the ground in Asia's youngest nation following a bloody transition to independence.

• 01 января 2013, 12:04

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he was "appalled by the escalating terrorist violence in Pakistan," after 19 Shiite pilgrims died in a car bomb and 21 kidnapped soldiers were killed.

• 31 декабря 2012, 17:51

The UN is evacuating staff from the Central African Republic and the US has warned its citizens to leave as rebel fighters close in on the tense capital Bangui.

• 28 декабря 2012, 12:45

China, Brazil, India and other emerging powers agreed to major increases in their United Nations payments as the global body hammered out a new budget deal this week to avoid its own fiscal cliff.

• 26 декабря 2012, 18:16

The first meeting of the Coordination Council for national consultations on UN agenda in global development after 2015 was held in Astana.

• 24 декабря 2012, 10:58

The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved sending an African-led military force to help reconquer northern Mali from Islamist militants.

• 22 декабря 2012, 13:48

The UN Security Council on Thursday slapped sanctions on two Iranian firms accused of supplying arms to the Syrian government.

• 21 декабря 2012, 15:44