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Thousands of children in Myanmar will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an aid agency warned Sunday as an increasingly angry international community pleaded for approval to mount an all-out effort to help cyclone survivors.
The world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and is expected to grow only 1.8% in 2008, the United Nations said in its mid-year economic projections Thursday.
The U.N. says the world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and will grow by only 1.8 percent in 2008.
Children in Myanmar may be forced to attend school in relief camps and tents because 85 percent of the educational buildings have been destroyed or damaged in a cyclone-ravaged region, the United Nations says.
Thousands of people rioted in the streets of the Somali capital on Monday to protest rising food prices and shops' refusal to accept Somali currency.
The United Nations is establishing a task force to address the global food crisis, which is "increasingly resulting in social tension," the world body said Tuesday.
The United Nations plans to establish a task force to tackle the global food crisis to avert "social unrest on an unprecedented scale," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging stepped-up efforts to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and black marketeers
The U.N. secretary-general sounded a warning about rocketing food prices on Friday, saying the problem has developed into a "real global crisis."
A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
Thousands of children in Myanmar will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an aid agency warned Sunday as an increasingly angry international community pleaded for approval to mount an all-out effort to help cyclone survivors.
The world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and is expected to grow only 1.8% in 2008, the United Nations said in its mid-year economic projections Thursday.
The U.N. says the world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and will grow by only 1.8 percent in 2008.
Children in Myanmar may be forced to attend school in relief camps and tents because 85 percent of the educational buildings have been destroyed or damaged in a cyclone-ravaged region, the United Nations says.
Thousands of people rioted in the streets of the Somali capital on Monday to protest rising food prices and shops' refusal to accept Somali currency.
The United Nations is establishing a task force to address the global food crisis, which is "increasingly resulting in social tension," the world body said Tuesday.
The United Nations plans to establish a task force to tackle the global food crisis to avert "social unrest on an unprecedented scale," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging stepped-up efforts to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and black marketeers
The U.N. secretary-general sounded a warning about rocketing food prices on Friday, saying the problem has developed into a "real global crisis."
A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis
Nicole Kidman has urged world leaders and ordinary people to join the global fight to end violence against women
The U.N. chief warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations.
U.N. officials pledged Friday to pursue those responsible for slaying a Nigerian peacekeeper during food riots in the Haitian capital.
Benedict opted for a low-key lecture in his speech before the world body, stressing the religious foundation of its goals
After a dramatic three days in which he put America's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI turned his attention Friday to the original purpose of his first U.S. visit as leader of the Roman Catholic Church -- a speech at the United Nations.
Two United Nations contract workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, were kidnapped Tuesday in southern Somalia, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
Peru and Bolivia are up in arms over the U.N. anti-narcotics agency's plan to criminalize the traditional medicinal practice of the Andes
If you fix the cities, do you fix the problem? With 50 percent of the entire human race currently living in cities and responsible for emitting up to 80 percent of all global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year, they certainly don't seem a bad place to start.
Cocaine-abusing celebrities are glamorizing the use of narcotics and encouraging more young people to use illegal substances, the United Nations drug control agency has warned.
A senior U.N. official says 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers many of whom are killed, maimed, abducted and raped and denied access to humanitarian groups
A United Nations official who has toured areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina says its victims resemble similarly displaced poor people in other parts of the world
A gathering of Presidents and prime ministers looked impressive. But the unspoken question was whether this forum would lead to real change
More than 24 hours after twin bombings killed dozens in the Algerian capital, rescue workers continued to search for nearly a dozen people trapped beneath the debris of a partially collapsed United Nations building.
Helping the world's poor adapt to more floods, droughts and other changes from a warming planet will cost the richest nations at least $86 billion a year by 2015, a panel warned
Arms embargoes imposed by the United Nations since 1990 have been effective in only about a fourth of the cases, according to a new study
The number of people around the world living with the virus that causes AIDS is actually nearly seven million fewer than previous estimates, according to the United Nations.
Hundreds of Cambodians turn out to see the first public hearing for a former official of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime
The U.N. refugee agency estimates the number of displaced people in the war-torn eastern African nation of Somalia "has risen sharply to a staggering 1 million."
The United Nations is calling on NATO to do more to stop the Afghan opium trade after a new survey showed how the drug dominates Afghanistan's economy.
Special U.N. envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari has returned to the country and headed to the isolated bunker-like capital Naypyidaw for continued talks with senior government officials, Western sources have told CNN.
The United Nations said Friday it was "disappointed" that Myanmar's government had expelled a top U.N. diplomat, and the Bush administration condemned the action by the ruling military junta in the secretive Asian country.
While much was said at the United Nations summit on global warming, the world is still a ways from taking concrete action
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Bolstered by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's assurances that there's been "substantial improvement" in security and stability in Iraq, the United Nations is considering boosting its presence in the country.
The number of Iraqi refugees trying to flee to industrialized nations has increased substantially in 2007 -- and nearly half are trying to go to Sweden, the U.N. refugee agency reported Friday.
A substance removed from the United Nations office last week is not a toxic chemical agent, police and a U.N. official told CNN on Thursday.
Workers found vials believed to contain the poison gas phosgene at a U.N. office building in New York, U.N. officials said Thursday.
Infectious diseases are emerging more quickly around the globe, spreading faster and becoming increasingly difficult to treat, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
With an estimated 2.1 billion airline passengers roaming the planet last year alone, infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
The U.N. has taken the Florida swamp off its endangered list. But critics complain the Bush Administration is playing eco-politics again
It's an irony that even Al Gore might appreciate. As global warming causes the polar icecaps to recede, potentially oil-rich seabeds are being uncovered beneath the Arctic Circle in the suddenly navigable -- and drillable -- territory.
Extreme weather has plagued the globe this year, a U.N. agency says, causing some of the highest temperatures on record.
The United Nations may expand its role in Iraq, according to a new draft resolution the U.N. Security Council is considering.
The United Nations has not kept an up-to-date list of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders targeted by international sanctions, harming both the fight against terrorism and efforts to stabilize Afghanistan
United Nations inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has closed all of its nuclear facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency told reporters Wednesday.
The number of refugees worldwide has gone up for the first time in five years, largely because of the exodus of more than 1 million Iraqis from their war-torn homeland in 2006, according to a U.N. report out Monday.
The number of refugees worldwide has gone up for the first time in five years, largely because of the exodus of more than 1 million Iraqis from their war-torn homeland in 2006, according to a U.N. report out Monday.
Rwandan rebels killed 17 people in overnight attacks on three villages in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission said Sunday.
Dr. Samuel Johnson said it best: nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows. In other words, to get stuff done, we humans need a deadline.
U.N. relief officials appealed Wednesday for safe access to the Palestinian refugee camp at the center of a standoff between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army
Tales of horror emerge from the refugee camp where fighting stopped temporarily after three bloody days
Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers charged with disarming Congolese militia instead engaged in gold and weapons trafficking with militia members, the BBC reported
Palestinian militants on Sunday attacked a United Nations school festival in southern Gaza, killing the bodyguard of a Fatah lawmaker, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
The United Nations is unable to determine how many Iraqi civilians have been killed so far this year because the Iraqi government won't share the information, a U.N. agency said in a Wednesday report.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran's U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon ducked in surprise when an explosion rattled Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday where he was delivering a televised news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines -- nothing more than what one child advocate calls "cannon fodder."
Problem: Unclean drinking water can be deadly.
More than 34,000 civilians were "violently killed" across Iraq last year, with an average of 94 killed every day, according to a new United Nations report.
Nepalese political parties and communist rebels on Saturday agreed upon an interim constitution under which the king is no longer the nation's head of state.
Fighters loyal to a dissident general have attacked army positions in eastern Congo with small arms and heavy weapons, the government and the U.N. said on Saturday.
Insurgent attacks in Iraq killed 3,709 civilians last month, making October the deadliest month since the war began in 2003, according to U.N. figures.
Some 39.5 million people are living with AIDS worldwide, according to a U.N. report released on Tuesday. "This year's report gives us real cause for concern," said U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot, who warned the "global epidemic is growing in all areas."
Last week, two self-proclaimed Jedi Knights appealed to the United Nations to recognize their faith as an official religion and accordingly rename the International Day for Tolerance to Interstellar Day of Tolerance.
The Nepalese government and Maoist rebels reached an agreement shortly after midnight Wednesday that would allow the rebels to join an interim parliament and government by the end of November, a key government negotiator said.
A senior United Nations official and a Miami businessman were arrested Wednesday as a two-count indictment was unsealed, charging them in connection with a procurement scheme involving more than $50 million in U.N. contracts, federal prosecutors said.
The U.N. General Assembly has appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to serve as the United Nations' next secretary-general from January 1.
The United Nations estimates that up to 1.6 million Iraqis have left their homes for other countries in "a steady, silent exodus" as a result of the war and sectarian violence, forcing the U.N. refugee agency to announce a shift in priorities.
Spitting across the demarcation line that separates the two armies. Making throat-slashing hand gestures. Flashing their middle fingers. Trying to talk to the South Korean troops.
One billion: The number of people who lack access to clean water -- around one-fifth of the world's population, according to U.N. data.
Iran has offered to help support the cease-fire in Lebanon in talks Saturday with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and insisted that diplomacy was the only way to resolve its nuclear dispute with the West.
Around 100 Italian marines donning blue berets arrived on small motor boats and U.N. helicopters at the Lebanese port city of Tyre Saturday as part of a first wave of Italian troops expected over the weekend, video of the scene showed.
European countries have pledged to contribute almost 7,000 troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
French President Jacques Chirac has announced he will commit a total of 2,000 French troops to the United Nations' international force that is to help Lebanon's army secure that country's borders.
Italy announced Tuesday it is willing to lead the U.N. contingent in southern Lebanon and could contribute as many as 3,000 troops.
Italy's government Friday formally approved a plan to send up to 3,000 troops to Lebanon to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission there, the prime minister's office said.
Italy's government Friday formally approved a plan to send an unspecified number of troops to Lebanon to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission there, the prime minister's office said.
Israeli troops have begun handing over control of territory in southern Lebanon to the U.N. observer mission, the Israeli military announced early Thursday.
An Arab League delegation urged the United Nations on Tuesday to pass a resolution that would require an immediate Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, diplomats said.
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The U.N. Security Council called for an end to the fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas Sunday night, warning that continued fighting could have "grave consequences for the humanitarian situation."
France, Italy, Turkey and Norway show a willingness to join an international peacekeeping force for Lebanon, according to diplomatic sources familiar with discussions at Wednesday's emergency Mideast summit in Rome.
A diplomatic firestorm raged Wednesday after four U.N. observers died in southern Lebanon in what the U.N. chief said was an "apparently deliberate" Israeli airstrike.
The U.N. observers killed when an Israeli bomb hit their bunker in Lebanon Tuesday called an Israeli military liaison about 10 times in the six hours before they died to warn that aerial attacks were getting close to their position, a U.N. officer said.
An Israeli airstrike hit a United Nations post in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing at least two of the agency's observers, according to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
The U.N. special representative for Iraq has urged Iraqis to find a way to stop the killings in the war-torn country, calling them a "national tragedy."
More than 14,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq in the first half of this year, an ominous figure reflecting the fact that "killings, kidnappings and torture remain widespread" in the war-torn country, a United Nations report says.
East Timorese soldiers attacked unarmed police in the capital of Dili Thursday, killing nine and wounding 27, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said.
Child labor is on the decline -- especially in Latin America -- and its most egregious forms could be eliminated within the next decade, a U.N. agency said Thursday in a report it called "cautiously optimistic."
Armed riot police detained dozens of supporters of the Democratic Republic of Congo's leading political opposition party Friday when they broke up a protest over preparations for landmark polls, officials said.
U.N. peacekeepers on Friday canceled a joint operation with the Congolese army against ethnic militia fighters after dozens of army commandos mutinied and ransacked a U.N. base, a U.N. spokesman said.
Under the close watch of thousands of police and U.N. peacekeepers, Haitians flocked to -- and at times, overwhelmed -- polling places to cast ballots for the first time in six years for president and members of parliament.
A U.N. helicopter with 16 people on board -- three crew and 13 aid workers -- has crashed in Darfur, Sudan, U.N. spokeswoman Radhia Achouri told CNN.
The United Nations on Wednesday called attention to a disturbing trend in the Iraq war: child insurgents.
Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, has settled a libel case he brought against a British newspaper earlier this year.
Wednesday's deadly explosions in Amman, Jordan, drew swift condemnation in Washington and at the United Nations.
Syria has received a formal request from the United Nations to interrogate several suspects in its investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Syrian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
Syria has angrily rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that demands Damascus cooperate fully in the investigation into the killing of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri or face "further measures."
The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously in favor of a resolution demanding Syria cooperate with a U.N. investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri or face "further action."
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