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Mary Davis Fisher, a prominent US-based writer, artist and motivational speaker who travels around the world advocating for those who share her HIV-positive status, has been appointed as Special Representative for the Joint United Nations Programme
12:50 May 19, 2006 PST
Having a judiciary that can exercise full independence from both legislative and executive pressure helps protect it from changing political viewpoints and private interests.
12:35 May 19, 2006 PST
While conducting a dismounted patrol in northern Ramadi, Iraqi soldiers were approached by a local resident who informed them that a suspected IED maker was operating in his neighborhood.
11:02 May 19, 2006 PST
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden said that cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies would be among his top priorities.
10:10 May 19, 2006 PST
If governments are determined to acquire nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, normal international mechanisms to prevent that are not always sufficient, a senior State Department official says.
10:10 May 19, 2006 PST
Yesterday alone, 102 people arrived in India's Tamil Nadu state, the largest number in a single day since the present outflow began, bringing the total to 1,019. They are being housed in camps run by the government, where 60,000 refugees from previ
09:18 May 19, 2006 PST
A senior U.S. diplomat has welcomed 'the general calm' in Montenegro as the Adriatic republic prepares for a historic referendum May 21 on whether to declare independence from Serbia.
09:18 May 19, 2006 PST
The United States on May 18 presented a draft global treaty that would halt any future production of the fissile material used to make nuclear weapons, and expressed hope that a final treaty could be completed by the end of 2006.
07:43 May 19, 2006 PST
With direct assistance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal partners, U.S. engine manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. received a $58 million contract from China to supply power generation equipment for the world's largest
07:37 May 19, 2006 PST
The United States is giving Montenegro a grant worth more than $460,000 to create an investment fund for the Adriatic republic's water and sewage infrastructure, considered key to developing a viable tourism industry.
07:34 May 19, 2006 PST
Natural disasters are threatening development in poor countries in the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere in the world, an Organization of American States (OAS) official says. Speaking May 16 at a forum on natural
07:14 May 19, 2006 PST
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour wrapped up a one-week visit to Cambodia today, stressing the 'capital importance' of an independent, professional judiciary not only for the consolidation of democracy but also for re
07:13 May 19, 2006 PST
In an effort to respond to growing public demands for transparency in clinical trials involving humans, the United Nations health agency today called on research institutions and companies to register all such studies and include details ranging fro
07:03 May 19, 2006 PST
Aiming to shore up contingency plans for the operation of United Nations offices in New York in case of an international outbreak of bird flu among humans, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named Imelda Henkin of the Netherlands as the world body'
06:55 May 19, 2006 PST
Expressing his condolences to the families in Burundi whose loved ones were exhumed by torrential rainfall and floodwaters submerging a cemetery, the acting Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General there said his staff had not
06:53 May 19, 2006 PST
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