UN Haiti Force Needs Troops Urgently - Brazil
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti  urgently need reinforcements to cope with surging violence in  the Caribbean country devastated by tropical storms, Brazil's  foreign minister said on Thursday.
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China has sent a contingent of riot police to Haiti to assist United Nations peacekeepers in the troubled Caribbean nation. Authorities in Beijing say the force of 95 police, which includes 13 women officers, left the Chinese capital for Haiti Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS - The African Union communicated to the UN Thursday its decision to send an expanded force of troops and police with a broad mandate to protect aid workers, monitors and civilians in Sudanâs strife-torn Darfur region.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: UN peacekeepers beefed up security today in the Haitian city of Gonaives where more than 1000 people died in floods, after desperate survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday increasing the UN peacekeeping force in Congo by 5,900 troops and international police - less than half the amount requested by Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil wants a seat at the top  table of world nations.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two UN peacekeepers were wounded in shootouts with supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Port-au-Prince and civilians believed to be Aristide opponents in flood-ravaged Gonaives - the first casualties of the
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon urgently appealled to member states Thursday to make military contributions to the crucial, joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation in Sudan&#39;s strife-torn Darfur region.
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The Brazilian-led United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti does not have enough troops to stop renewed conflict at a time when armed groups have taken over two towns, a Brazilian Army colonel said on Thursday.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - The United Nations said Friday foreign troops have crossed into Congo and called on outside forces to stop giving weapons and reinforcements to renegade soldiers battling army loyalists in Congo's eastern borderlands.
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Brazil's top general leading  Haiti peacekeepers says comments by US Democrat John Kerry boosted unrest.
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Brazil is a serious contender for a possible spot on an expanded UN Security Council, due to its size and its non-nuclear status, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday.
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The UN peacekeeping force in Haiti should reach the planned 8,000 or more by the end of November, Haitian radio reported Saturday.
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Unrest in Haiti may force the United Nations to divert ships carrying food for flood victims to the Dominican Republic, where the aid can be put on trucks, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday called on the world community to help Haiti to ``forcefully take on armed individuals&#39;&#39; who want to thwart democratic rule in their impoverished nation.
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The United Nations relief agency has called for more international troops to be sent to the flood-devastated Haitian city of Gonaives to secure the delivery of emergency food supplies.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.