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The United Nations today voiced deep concern at the recent intensification of fighting along Chad's eastern border with Sudan and the extension of the armed confrontations to the southern border with the Central African Republic (CAR), particularly
12:17 Apr 11, 2006
On Thursday, April 13, 2006, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman will visit the Department of Energy's (DOE) Yucca Mountain site. Following a tour of the site, Secretary Bodman will host a press conference at Yucca Mountain's north portal to dis
12:17 Apr 11, 2006
The U.S. Department of State issued a fact sheet April 10 on the Adriatic Charter, a pact signed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the foreign ministers of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia on May 2, 2003.
11:19 Apr 11, 2006
A recent article citing a military briefing from 2004 has called into question the threat that Abu Musab Zarqawi and al-Qaida in Iraq pose to Iraq, dismissing it as 'propaganda'
09:37 Apr 11, 2006
The U.S. private sector donates to international causes at a level nearly four times the amount spent by the U.S. government on official development assistance (ODA), according to a report about to be published by the Hudson Institute's Center for
09:24 Apr 11, 2006
With the Karni commercial crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip still closed, a senior official of the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees warned that the clock is ticking toward a dangerous lack of basic food.
09:17 Apr 11, 2006
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today condemned the 'heinous' attack on a school which killed six children and wounded 14 other people. He called for the end of such atrocities against the youngsters of the violence-torn country.
08:29 Apr 11, 2006
With 1.3 million people in the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan still suffering from the effects of almost 40 years of nuclear tests and the local economy still reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union, an exhibition has opened at United Nati
08:21 Apr 11, 2006
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began investigating a deadly shooting near one of its food convoys in central Somalia, in which at least one militiaman was killed and a number injured when gunmen attacked the convoy on the road t
07:28 Apr 11, 2006
The recent arrest of former Liberian President Charles Taylor marks a 'great moment for international criminal justice and the victims who suffered so tragically' under his rule, says David Crane, the former prosecutor for the United Nations Speci
07:28 Apr 11, 2006
Restoring tens of thousands of lost and degraded wetlands around the world could go a long way towards reducing the threat of bird flu pandemics by keeping disease-carrying wild birds away from infecting domestic poultry
07:28 Apr 11, 2006
A major United Nations meeting on the Asia-Pacific region today discussed a two-track approach to cooperation focusing on both cross-border infrastructure development, such as highways and railways, and infrastructure investment like bonds and a dev
06:38 Apr 11, 2006
The U.S. private sector donates to international causes at a level nearly four times the amount spent by the U.S. government on official development assistance (ODA), according to a report about to be published by the Hudson Institute's Center for G
06:38 Apr 11, 2006
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across the United States April 10 to make their opinions heard about immigration reform.
05:36 Apr 11, 2006
President Bush will welcome Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Washington for an April 28 meeting, the White House announced April 10.
05:12 Apr 11, 2006
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