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Yahoo! News: United Nations
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UN calls for Afghans to take charge of future
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AP - The U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday it's time for the international community to take "concrete steps" to allow Afghans to take charge of their future — and to ensure that "Afghanization" becomes more than a slogan.
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Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered
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 AP - The deal looked simple enough: U.S. military equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister's salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard.
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UN rejects export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna
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 AP - A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected Thursday by a U.N. wildlife meeting, with scores of developing nations joining Japan in opposing a measure they feared would devastate fishing economies.
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Clinton and Bush head to Haiti on Monday
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AP - Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who are spearheading U.S. fundraising for Haiti, will make their first joint visit to the Caribbean nation on Monday to assess the nation's earthquake recovery needs.
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UN chief signs deal with Russia-led security group
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 AP - The United Nations chief has signed a cooperation agreement with a Russia-led security group of ex-Soviet nations that some see as a counterbalance to NATO.
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Antonio Banderas appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador
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 AP - Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has been named a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for the fight against poverty, the United Nations Development Program announced Wednesday.
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Population surge outstrips efforts to eradicate slums
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 AFP - Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped slums in the past decade, but the housing effort was outstripped by population growth and rural exodus to the cities, the United Nations said.
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UN rights chief says Gaza war probes inadequate
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AP - The U.N.'s top human rights official criticized Israeli and Palestinian authorities on Wednesday for failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes last year in the Gaza Strip.
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UN animal conference tackles Mideast animal trade
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AP - A 2-year-old lion, emaciated and barely breathing, is found in a tiny cage off a Beirut highway. Monkeys are hauled through the dark tunnels of Gaza, bound for private zoos. Rare prize falcons are kept in desert encampments by wealthy Arab sheiks.
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UN chief recommends Tony Lake to head UNICEF
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AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday selected U.S. foreign policy expert Tony Lake, who was an adviser to President Barack Obama, as his candidate to head UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
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U.N. council wants probe of Somalia aid diversion
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 Reuters - Members of the U.N. Security Council want an outside investigation of charges of widespread diversion of U.N. aid to radical Islamist rebels in Somalia, Mexico's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
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U.N. chief chides Israel for confidentiality breach
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 Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday criticized Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman for releasing information about what Ban said was a confidential telephone call between the two men.
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U.N.'s new envoy hails Karzai on poll watchdog change
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 Reuters - The new United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan praised President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday for revoking a decree that barred foreign observers from a U.N.-backed electoral watchdog.
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UN expert: NKorean farm controls causing hunger
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 AP - North Korea should let farms produce freely and allow food to be sold in local markets because the communist government cannot provide enough food for its people, a U.N. human rights investigator urged Monday.
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North Korea rights situation has worsened: U.N. envoy
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 Reuters - Human rights in North Korea have worsened over the last few years and it is time for the United Nations Security Council to protect the people who are mistreated by their own government, a U.N. envoy said on Monday.
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UN agencies say open defecation on the decline
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AP - Almost 170 million people have moved from the outdoors to at least the outhouse to defecate in what the United Nations is calling a major advance in global sanitation over the last two decades.
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UN sappers detonate leftover shells from Gaza war
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 AP - United Nations explosives experts have blown up several Israeli white phosphorous shells as they try to rid Gaza of munitions left behind in last year's war.
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U.N. chief urges donors to keep Haiti funds flowing
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Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon vowed on Sunday to work to keep donor funds flowing for Haiti's recovery and reconstruction following the devastating January earthquake in the poor Caribbean state.
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Miliband says Security Council on same page on Iran
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 AFP - Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on a visit to China Monday that the veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council were on the same page on how to tackle Iran.
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Streep presents award to ex-hostage Betancourt
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 AP - It was hard to tell who was more impressed when film star Meryl Streep presented a leadership award to Ingrid Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who endured years of captivity in jungle camps.
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