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The U.N. Security Council has more work to do to enforce the nonproliferation and counterterrorism measures already enacted by the council, a U.S. official says.
14:11 May 31, 2006
Ten of the 74 academy bandsmen are traveling to the Middle East in June to provide entertainment support.
14:01 May 31, 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to involve HIV-infected people more closely in the fight against AIDS.
13:54 May 31, 2006
The 15th Airlift Wing at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, sent a pair of its C-17 Globemaster IIIs here to support the Australian Defense Force. U.S. crews are shuttling cargo and Australian military forces to strategic locations within the country.
13:38 May 31, 2006
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its sponsorship of the National Obesity Action Forum, June 5-6, 2006, in Bethesda, Md. HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has identified prevention as one of the Department's key prioritie
13:30 May 31, 2006
The United States continues to support the creation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and is working to achieve this goal partly through the negotiation of subregional and bilateral trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere, says Assistan
13:24 May 31, 2006
It was a foggy day in San Francisco when a 10-year-old girl flew a KC-10 Extender under the Golden Gate Bridge.
13:22 May 31, 2006
Students from sub-Saharan Africans seeking higher education are the most mobile in the world, with one out of 16 studying abroad, according to a new study carried out by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
13:17 May 31, 2006
With the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory looking extremely bleak and predicted to worsen in the coming months, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been compelled to revise their appeal for a
12:32 May 31, 2006
The Clean Air Mercury Rule, established under the Bush Administration, is the first-ever rule to regulate mercury emissions from power plants.
12:32 May 31, 2006
'I know you join me in praying for their safety,' Secretary-General Kofi Annan told participants at a ceremony where medals were posthumously awarded to peacekeepers who have lost their lives in 2005.
12:22 May 31, 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned a recent fatal attack on Nepalese United Nations peacekeepers serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and urged the release of those detained after a confrontation with armed militias.
12:20 May 31, 2006
Because of increasing demand for large-scale green power purchases, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Green Power Partnership members will raise the bar to maximize environmental benefits of purchasing green power from renewable sources o
12:16 May 31, 2006
As the United Nations General Assembly today opened a special meeting on HIV/AIDS, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged participants - including a dozen heads of State and numerous ministers - to unify their efforts to fight the disease especially as
10:37 May 31, 2006
Born in the aftermath of the atomic bomb horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and amid a proliferation of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, a little known but vital United Nations committee that probes the effects of radiation is celebrating its 50th
10:36 May 31, 2006
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