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PRETORIA, Sept 10: South Africa will next week brief the UN&#39;s nuclear watchdog agency about recent arrests in connection with an international nuclear smuggling ring with ties to Libya, a senior official said on Friday.
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The UN is to investigate the detention of the Venezuelan foreign minister as he tried to leave New York.
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The United States expects to unveil this week a draft Security Council resolution authorizing African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government, U.N. diplomats said on Monday.
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The UN Security Council is to meet behind closed doors today on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africaâs devastating six nation war in Congo, Africaâs third-largest nation.
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Kofi Annan willl seek $1.5bn to deal with what the UN calls the world's forgotten emergencies, many in Africa.
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NAIROBI  - The UN Security Council will hold a rare meeting outside its New York base this week to focus on Sudan amid mounting alarm over the crisis in Darfur and little sign of an immediate breakthrough in peace talks between Khartoum and southern
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan will travel to the Middle East later this week, visiting Lebanon, Israel and most likely Syria and Iran to try to garner support for the U.N. resolution that led to the fragile Israeli-Hezbollah cease-fire, the U.N. said Wednesday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan holds   talks with Jordan on Thursday in a drive to cement a   Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire before traveling to Damascus to   press Syria to help stop arms smuggling across its border.
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Peacekeepers in Congo are prepared to help disarm Hutu rebels threatening Rwanda from Congolese soil to ease tensions between the two Central African neighbors, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9 -- President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure worried South Africans that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki will leave Sunday for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he will focus on tackling climate change, the foreign ministry said.
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South Africa on Tuesday protested a "rush" by the five veto-wielding Security Council members to adopt new United Nations sanctions against Iran, saying it wants to wait for a report from the U.N. nuclear agency later this month.
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U.N. Security Council member South Africa on Tuesday expressed reservations about the timing of a draft sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear program as well as some of its provisions.
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The UN is probing allegations of contracts fraud amounting to $610m involving some peace missions in Africa.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan said on Tuesday he was hoping for "positive" news in the   next 48 hours on whether Israel would lift an air and sea   blockade on Lebanon.
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A panel commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to draft a plan to broaden the UN Security Council is expected to issue its recommendations tomorrow.
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The United Nations' nuclear watchdog prepares a report that could trigger further UN sanctions