UN transfers millions from oil-for-food
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The United Nations has transferred $161 million from the defunct oil-for-food program to a development program for Iraq, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
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United Nations: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, under attack from a US right-wing republican, who demanded that he step down in connection with allegations of corruption in the now defunct &#39;oil-for-food&#39; programme, has got a backing from several member
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The UN's food agency says that protectionism and a prolonged fall in prices are threatening the livelihoods of  2.5 billion people.
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The United Nations approved paying &#36;2.9 billion to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Thursday for environmental projects to clean up oil lakes and other pollution from Iraq's 1990-1991 occupation of Kuwait, a spokesman said.
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PARIS, Dec. 17 -- Countries and international organizations pledged $7.4 billion in assistance to the impoverished Palestinian Authority at a conference in Paris on Monday, saying that an infusion of cash would help the peace process begun by the United States last month in Annapolis, Md.
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As the death toll from the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe soared to nearly 120,000, nations donated US$500 million (euro370 million) toward the world&#39;s largest-ever relief effort, but UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said even
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The United Nations mobilises what it says will be its biggest relief operation ever in response to the Asian quake.
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Iraq said it wanted its money back from the scandal-tainted U.N. oil-for-food program Friday as Secretary-General Kofi Annan vowed to get to the bottom of wrongdoing by U.N. staff.
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Iraq said it wanted its money back from the scandal-tainted U.N. oil-for-food program on Friday as Secretary-General Kofi Annan vowed to get to the bottom of wrongdoing by U.N. staff.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The UN World Food Program suspended food convoys to the Darfur region in western Sudan after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, UN humanitarian officials said.
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Spain and France on Tuesday expressed their support to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who was accused by US senators of corrupting the UN "Oil-for-Food" program for Iraq.
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The United Nations is adopting  new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard  against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food  program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was &quot;very disappointed and surprised&quot; that his son received payments until February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq&#39;s oil-for-food program that is the subject of numerous corruption investigations.
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The United Nations on Friday asked wealthy nations to donate an extra &#36;59 million in aid to help about 400,000 people in Grenada and Haiti recover from a recent wave of storms and flooding.
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The United Nations will ask donor countries to contribute a record $450 million in aid to the Palestinians, whose economy has been devastated by international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led government, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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The United Nations has allocated $2.35 million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Guinea, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike, a U.N. spokesperson said Friday.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday that he was unaware his son, Kojo, received as much as $150,000 in payments from a Swiss company while it profited from the U.N.-run oil-for-food program in Iraq.