U.N.: Ex-Liberia leader may have assets
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is believed to have substantial financial assets despite his demand that the court prosecuting him for war crimes cover his legal costs because he is indigent, U.N. investigators said in a report obtained Thursday.
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Liberia's ex-leader Gyude Bryant is charged with embezzling more than $1m while in office.
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Â· Ex-ruler of Liberia accused of crimes in Sierra Leone  Â· Taylor is first African leader to face prosecution
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The former United Nations secretary general has spent the past week trying to nudge Kenyaâs government and opposition leaders toward a compromise.
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THE HAGUE, June 4 -- The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the highest-ranking African leader to face an international war crimes court, began Monday with the defendant refusing to leave his cell and prosecutors alleging that his fighters hacked off civilians' hands and legs, forced...
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UNITED NATIONS -- Pakistani peacekeepers serving under the U.N. flag "aided and abetted" a network of Kenyan businessmen smuggling gold from a mine in eastern Congo, providing them with food, housing, transportation and security, according to the findings of a confidential U.N. investigation.
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The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said yesterday that he had not known that his son had continued receiving payments until February of this year from a Swiss inspection company
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The man leading an independent investigation into alleged corruption in the United Nationsâ oil-for-food programme said most of the money illegally obtained by Saddam Hussein came from smuggling, much of which the UN Security Council knew about but did
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A former Liberian army chief is arrested for "subversive activities" - the first such arrests since 2005 elections.
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NEW YORK, May 30 (IPS) - Gone are the days when the scowling face of  dictator Mobutu Sese Seko gazed out from the face of Zaire's  paper currency, a denomination that inflation and corruption  eventually made so worthless it was issued in notes of 5 million.
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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is visiting areas affected by violence that followed Kenya's disputed poll.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan has selected former President Clinton to be the U.N. point man for tsunami reconstruction and ensure that the world doesn't forget the immense needs of the countries devastated by the Dec. 26 disaster, a well-informed U.N. diplomat said Tuesday.
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U.N. peacekeepers have made good  progress stabilizing Liberia after years of war but the country  needs more international help to rebuild its shattered economy  and create jobs, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
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U.N. investigators probing the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri have identified a number of people who may have been involved or known about it, their chief reported on Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- South Korea's former ambassador to the United Nations, Choi Young-jin, will travel to Ivory Coast in the coming weeks to run the world body's peacekeeping efforts, making him the first South Korean diplomat to lead a major U.N. mission in Africa, and the latest compatriot tapped...
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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations called on Tuesday for a full investigation into alleged corruption in contracts worth some $610 million linked to U.N. peacekeeping missions.
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Charles Taylor is not happy about  conditions in the Hague jail he was moved to last month, his  lawyer said on Friday as the former Liberian president appeared  in court for the first time since he left Sierra Leone.