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Pakistani authorities deliberately failed to properly investigate the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, a UN-appointed independent panel said.
International donors pledged nearly $10-billion on Wednesday to help shell-shocked Haiti recover from January’s devastating earthquake.
The UN General Assembly was expected on Friday to demand Israelis and Palestinians probe alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict.
The UN Security Council has agreed on a watered-down statement expressing "serious concern" at the extended detention of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday toured Sri Lanka’s largest war displaced persons camp, amid concerns for 300 000 Tamils left homeless.
A senior United Nations official on Friday warned that a reported proxy war between Sudan and Chad through rebel groups on each side of their border threatened to destabilise the…
The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned the rebel attacks in Chad and urged world support for the embattled government as the insurgents threatened a…
Key United Nations powers stepped up calls for Burma to release political prisoners after an envoy to the repressive state warned of ”serious international repercussions” from…
Allies backed former British prime minister Tony Blair in his new role as Middle East peace envoy for the main global powers, but the Hamas movement poured scorn on the…
South Africa pushed on Monday for a 90-day freeze of Iran’s uranium enrichment in exchange for a simultaneous suspension of United Nations sanctions that the Security Council is…
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon held crunch talks on Monday with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir where he urged him to cooperate with the deployment of a joint United Nations…
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called for a ”good governance pact” in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an address to the National Assembly at the start of…
South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon was sworn in on Thursday as the next United Nations Secretary General at a General Assembly ceremony during which he vowed to be "a harmoniser and…
The debate over how to punish Iran for its refusal to suspend sensitive nuclear fuel work resumes in New York on Monday with Western diplomats confident that the United Nations…
Despite a last-minute snag, a United Nations Security Council panel on Tuesday slapped a 12-month travel ban and asset freeze on three Côte d’Ivoire politicians viewed as…
Leaders from around the world hold a final day of meetings at the United Nations World Summit in New York on Friday, with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and condemnations of terrorism…
The United Nations rolled out the red carpet on Wednesday for more than 170 leaders attending the world’s largest summit one day after approving a watered-down blueprint to…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday he assumes responsibility for management lapses in the oil-for-food programme for Iraq, but vowed not to resign as…
South African Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has assured the United Nations Security Council that his country’s mediation in strife-torn Côte d’Ivoire will continue to push…
African leaders’ insistence at their summit on Thursday to drop demands for two permanent veto-wielding seats on an enlarged United Nations Security Council is a major setback…
