Aid pledges totalling nearly $10bn are made for earthquake-hit Haiti, exceeding the target set at a donor conference. Read More UN Haiti pledges surpass targets
UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday accepted a request from Pakistan’s president to delay the release of a report on the assassination of his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, until April 15. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky made the announcement just two hours before a three-member U.N. commission that investigated Bhutto’s death was [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the government of Burma to create the conditions for credible elections. He was speaking after a meeting of a group of nations established to back the UN’s efforts to promote democracy in Burma. The group called on the military…
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US still remains a strong negotiator in Middle East Sunday, March 21, 2010 MOSCOW: An extraordinary test of wills between the United States and Israel has left the Obama administration a stronger negotiator both with its closest ally in the Middle East and with Arab nations needed to broker peace with the Palestinians. The US [...]