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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice remains confident that the international community will succeed through diplomacy in convincing Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
04:50 Apr 21, 2006 PST
In clear violation of previous agreements, the Nepalese Government has banned the deployment of United Nations human rights monitoring teams during today's curfew, imposed after pro-democracy protesters called for mass demonstrations against King G
17:00 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Countries of the Western Hemisphere are being urged to carry out the mandates adopted at the Fourth Summit of the Americas, which was held in November 2005 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
16:39 Apr 20, 2006 PST
The disastrous combination of a worsening humanitarian situation, Government obstruction, rebel violence and weakened support of the international community has left relief operations in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region on the verge of breakdown,
16:25 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Colombia's law concerning the country's large internally displaced population is among the 'most advanced' in the world, says a new U.N. report on the state of the world's refugees.
16:25 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Vice President Cheney plans to travel to Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Croatia in early May, the White House announced April 19.
16:25 Apr 20, 2006 PST
The United States remains deeply committed to the success of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) but unanticipated delays and setbacks have prompted a U.S. request for an extension of the deadline by which it must destroy its remaining chemic
15:58 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Even though the threat does not appear imminent, Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment activities, its operation of 164 centrifuges and the continuing stream of extreme statements issued by regime leaders continue to cause concern, Director of Na
15:56 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today is reminding consumers about the Department of Energy's (DOE) gasoline price reporting system. Consumers can report activity at local gasoline filling stations that they believe may constitute 'gouging'
15:46 Apr 20, 2006 PST
The United States remains committed to concluding a comprehensive free-trade agreement (FTA) with South Africa and, in the near term, to strengthening the U.S.-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) trade and investment partnership, Deputy United Sta
15:46 Apr 20, 2006 PST
While commemorating the victims and vast damage caused by the Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear disaster 20 years ago, a top United Nations development official has said that the region is embracing the right strategy for economic and social recovery.
15:09 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Although spring rains have been falling in East Africa in recent weeks, they come too late too end the hunger crisis that threatens some eight million people in the parched region, United Nations agencies active in the area said today.
15:09 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Executives of financial giant Goldman Sachs and toymaker Lego are among the 20 business, labour and civil society leaders named today by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve on the Board of the Global Compact, a six-year-old initiati
15:09 Apr 20, 2006 PST
The first 149 Blue Helmets of a Beninese battalion that is expected to total 750 arrived over the weekend in Kalemie, in the north of Katanga, a province the size of France where fighting between the army and Mai Mai rebels has driven up to 200,000
14:42 Apr 20, 2006 PST
Estimates indicate that some 3.5 million people, more than half of them children, have been uprooted by four decades of fighting between the Government, left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries, UNICEF said in its latest donor update.
14:40 Apr 20, 2006 PST
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