UN inspectors find chemical in UN office
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U.N. weapons inspectors who had been in Iraq discovered potentially hazardous chemical agents in their office near U.N. headquarters as they were wrapping up their operation, a U.N. spokesman said Thursday.
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The U.N.'s European headquarters is  probably riddled with listening devices, a United Nations  security source said on Friday, a day after the organization  disclosed it had found a secret microphone in a meeting room.
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Blood tests have revealed that environment ministers from 13 European Union countries are contaminated with chemical pollutants from sofas, pizza boxes and pesticides, the environmental group WWF says.
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U.N. officials on Thursday defended elaborate precautions they took in a Manhattan office last week after finding possible toxic chemicals, which tests now indicate was a commercial solvent.
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U.N. officials on Thursday  defended elaborate precautions they took in a Manhattan office  last week after finding possible toxic chemicals, which tests  now indicate was a commercial solvent.
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UN inspectors today warned that Iraqi insurgents had used chemicals such as chlorine, combined with explosives for dispersal, in at least 10 attacks and could develop other weapons-grade toxic agents.
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A secret listening device found at the Geneva offices of the United Nations was in a room adjoining a main conference hall, where it could have been used to eavesdrop on any private conversations, the global body said Friday.
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The United Nations says a secret listening device has been found in a posh meeting room of its European headquarters in Geneva.
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Officials investigate why  seemingly harmless chemicals were mistaken for bio-warfare agents at a UN building.
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GENEVA A secret listening device has been found at the Geneva offices of the United Nations. A French language TV station says workers found the equipment during renovations this fall on a major meeting room.
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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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A team of UN inspectors travelled Thursday to North Korea&#39;s key atomic reactor to assess the size of the task they will face in monitoring its shutdown under a nuclear disarmament deal.
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GENEVA - The United Nations said Friday that it recently found a bugging device at its European headquarters here, but a UN source hinted that similar devices may have been discovered in the past.
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SEOUL -- A delegation from the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency arrived in South Korea yesterday for a follow-up probe into the country's secret nuclear experiments. The visit follows South Korea's recent admission that its scientists once dabbled in extracting plutonium and enriching uranium, both of which can be used to make nuclear arms. South Korea says the experiments were ...
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A U.N. internal investigative unit has found an unexpected amount of fraud and abuse at the United Nations and is currently investigating 250 cases, including alleged sexual and financial offenses.
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Iraqi scientists will assess pollution ranging from oil spills to scrap metal from destroyed military vehicles in an effort to tackle environmental damage in the war-ravaged country, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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US health officials are checking shipments of toothpaste from China for a potentially lethal chemical.