Swiss join UN's dirty cash battle
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Switzerland becomes the first country to join a global scheme to recover cash looted by corrupt leaders.
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The United Nations appealed to  the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in  donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies  touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the  money targeted at Africa.
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Led by Europe, international donors on Monday pledged $7.4 billion over three years to help Palestinians as new peace talks begin with Israel, yet old Mideast fights over disputed land and freedom of movement shadowed the largest show of support for the Palestinians in more than a decade.
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The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan got monthly payments more than four years longer than was previously known from a Swiss firm that won a lucrative contract under the scandal-ridden U.N. oil-for-food program, the United Nations said on Friday.
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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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Global body has misused tens of millions in its peacekeeping mission over the past 3 years.
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Swiss authorities will hand bank millions of dollars from the accounts of ex-Congolese leader Mobutu Sese Seko.
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Asia's superrich are grappling with an enviable new challenge: how to give away their billions
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Swiss authorities have informed the United Nations of a "possible terrorist attack" against its European headquarters in Geneva, its biggest premises outside of New York, the world body said in a letter to staff on Thursday.
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Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
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The Swiss bank won't be the last to announce such a writedown.
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The whiff of scandal has been swirling around the UN for months. But now Kofi Annan himself, the man handpicked by the Americans to lead the organisation seven years ago, is on the ropes.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was unaware his son received $30,000 a year for over five years from a Swiss-based company under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan has come under fire over revelations that his son was paid by a Swiss company that had a contract under the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Calling for urgent reform of the United Nations, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to help Brazil, Germany, India, Japan and a major African country join the UN Security Council as permanent members.
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A Swiss company that is being investigated on suspicion of fraud and abuses in the United Nations&#39; oil-for-food program paid the son of Secretary General Kofi Annan more than $50,000 for consulting
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Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers charged with disarming Congolese militia instead engaged in gold and weapons trafficking with militia members, the BBC reported