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Ready to help LDCs with recession: UN
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 11 hours ago
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Director-General Kandeh Yumkella told at a two-day ministerial-level conference in Vienna. �Today we are ready to contribute even more to your development efforts, to support your economic growth and wealth creation to the benefit of your nations and...
Tags: African, Kandeh Yumkella, industry development, New York City, Business Finance, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Development, United Nations, Least Developed Countries, Industry
Finally, Some Good News for Nicolas Cage
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility I can’t deny that Nicolas Cage is one actor I couldn’t have given a crap about until his life actually went in the crapper. I can’t help but feel sympathetic towards him now after the IRS brought the hammer down and repo’d one of his houses, and then...
Tags: U.N. Correspondents Association, U.N. Office, goodwill ambassadors, Nicolas Cage, humanitarian work, Los Angeles, Goodwill Ambassador, Entertainment Culture, Luke Cage, Human Interest, Social Issues, Diplomacy, United Nations, Politics, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Crapper, Antonio Maria Costa, Lord of War, Ambassadors of the United States, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Spam, Citizen of the World
U.S. envoy Rice says Geneva Conventions help America
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility The Obama administration has issued a ringing defense of the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, which officials of the Bush White House had said did not apply to their struggle against al Qaeda. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice...
Tags: United Nations Susan Rice, UNITED NATIONS, U.S. Supreme Court, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Kabul, Waterboarding, Laws of war, Enemy combatant, Politics, Barack Obama, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, War crimes, War in Afghanistan, Torture in the United States, War Conflict
eave the chairmanship of the Nuclear Energy Agency and looking for the post of President of Egypt .. Will they succeed?!
eave the chairmanship of the Nuclear Energy Agency and looking for the post of President of Egypt .. Will they succeed?! He was Mohammad ElBaradei, who launched the Egyptian newspapers close to the government launched a withering attack on Mohamed...
Tags: Politics, Nuclear Energy Agency, Mohammad ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, Republic ElBaradei, allnews, Egypt, Cairo, Gamal Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, National Democratic Party, President of Egypt, Nuclear proliferation, Egyptian, International Atomic Energy Agency, The Nuclear Energy Agency, the Egyptian press, Nobel Prize, United Nations, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
International Crisis Group Calls for the UN Police in East Timor to Step Back
Dili :: East Timor | 1 day ago
Credibility The International Crisis Group issued a report calling for the United Nations police force in East Timor to "step back" and hand control over to the local government. The UN has been providing security in East Timor since 2006 when political violence...
Tags: East Timor, U.N., International Crisis Group Calls, timorese policing, policing force, Jim Della-Giacoma, United Nations, Dili, Indonesian occupation of East Timor, Politics, East Timor ￢ﾀﾓ Portugal relations, Timor, War Conflict
Demonstration of Disabled Palestinians in Gaza to demand an end to their suffering and to lift the siege
Dozens of Palestinians physically disabled and hearing-impaired and visually in front of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations building in Gaza City on the occasion of International Day for the disabled. And ...
Tags: Israel-Gaza conflict, Palestinians, Social Issues, human rights, War Conflict, Gaza City, Amjad Shawa, Israeli, allnews, Gaza, Economy of the Palestinian territories, International reaction to the Gaza War, Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority, Gaza￢ﾀﾓIsrael conflict, Gaza Strip, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Palestinians, the disabled, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, the Palestinian people
EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Hides Docs, Cost of Greening Offices
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 2 days ago
Credibility The greening effort is an issue with some urgency, since the U.N. — and the world — are on the eve of the much-touted Copenhagen meeting on greenhouse gas emissions, which begins Dec...Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been leading an unprecedented lobbying...
Tags: U.N., pilot project, green effort, world organization, climate neutrality, Vietnam, Hanoi, Environment, Sustainable building, Green building, Building engineering, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme
Expert slams 'tabloid' e-mail row
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility The row broke out last month when hundreds of messages between scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and their peers around the world were put on the internet along with other documents. Some observers allege that...
Tags: University of East Anglia, United Nations, climate research, mails leak, climate science, research united, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Climate change, Global warming, Carbon finance, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Phil Jones, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Action on climate change, Environmental skepticism, Global warming controversy, Climatologists, The Great Global Warming Swindle, Climate of India, Climatic Research Unit, Diplomatic conferences, Environmental issues with energy, Tuvalu, Politics, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Forteana, Human Interest, Patrick Michaels, Mysteries
UN evacuates some levels after fire alarm
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The United Nations briefly evacuated three basement levels after a fire alarm went off Thursday morning, forcing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and pop star Stevie Wonder to leave a conference room. There was no evacuation in the rest of the 39-story...
Tags: messenger of peace, U.N., basement level, alarm went, New York City, Security, Ban Ki-moon, Alarms, United Nations, Disaster Accident
Stevie Wonder nets UN honour
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The United Nations has tapped American music icon Stevie Wonder as one of its latest celebrity ambassadors. Songs by Lady Gaga and other chart-toppers that glamourize unhealthy behaviours like disrespect and manipulation are the music equivalent of junk...
Tags: Stevie Wonder, U.N., New York City, Ban Ki-moon, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Social Issues, Charlize Theron, United Nations, Elie Wiesel, George Clooney, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, American Federation of Teachers, United Nations Messengers of Peace, Hasidic Judaism, Michael Jackson, South Africa under apartheid
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