U.N. asked to help probe lawmaker death
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Lebanon's prime minister has asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize U.N. investigators to help probe last week's killing of an anti-Syrian lawmaker in a massive car bombing in Beirut.
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The United States on Wednesday joined a rights group in calling for a full investigation into the death of a Kurdish law student in Iran after he was detained in the western city of Sanandaj.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri was assassinated nearly three years ago, the United States and France prodded the U.N. Security Council into ordering a U.N. inquiry into the killing within 24 hours.
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The Lebanese government decided on Tuesday to ask the United Nations to extend an ongoing inquiry into the killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, official sources said.
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The party of slain Pakistan opposition  leader Benazir Bhutto will call on the United Nations for an  inquiry into her assassination if it forms a government after  elections next month, a party spokesman said on Sunday.
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The Lebanese government decided on  Tuesday to ask the United Nations to extend an ongoing inquiry  into the killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri,  official sources said.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia ordered an inquiry Wednesday to determine the cause of death of former leader Yasser Arafat.
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U.S. officials have agreed to investigate the death of an 81-year-old Haitian pastor who died last month in the custody of immigration authorities, a U.S. congressman said Thursday.
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An opposition lawmaker died at a hospital shortly after he was wounded in a shooting near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, a hospital official said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called at an emotional tribute on Thursday for the prosecution of those behind the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people at the United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago.
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Police called to the United Nations headquarters on Sunday found the body of a female U.N. employee on the building's lawn, the victim of a suspected suicide.
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U.S. lawmakers who met with Darfur rebels in western Sudan and visited camps for Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend said they will be ask Washington to push for U.N. sanctions against the Sudanese government.
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The United Nations is setting up  an independent panel to investigate a bombing that killed 17  U.N. employees in Algiers on December 11, the world body  announced on Monday.
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The United Nations has been asked to set up an international investigative panel to probe alleged irregularities in Afghanistan's elections, the election management body said.
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Law lords asked to order inquiry into the death of two soldiers in Iraq
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The UN urges an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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Police investigating the death of ex-UDA leader Jim Gray issue an appeal for information.