UN chief barred from Tiger areas
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Kofi Annan tours tsunami-hit Sri Lanka but a visit to rebel-held areas is vetoed by the government.
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WASHINGTON - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was pressed Thursday to do more in Iraq, while at the same time he was being snubbed by the US president.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday it had proved legally impossible for his office to accept a U.N. membership application from Taiwan despite careful consideration of the matter.
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Trade in great white sharks would be restricted under a proposal adopted at a UN wildlife conference today, despite criticism that there is little evidence suggesting the fearsome ocean predators are threatened by commercial trade.
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Russia has ruled out UN Security Council sanctions against Sudan for its failure to control Arab militias in the Darfur region. The senior UN envoy to Sudan will brief the Council Thursday on his just-completed
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Goma - Former rebels have blocked Congolese troops from reinforcing positions near its volatile border with Rwanda, after clashes between the two sides on Sunday, the region&#39;s military chief said on Monday.
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President's authority suffers serious blow after supreme leader sides with MPs over cheap gas for villages suffering in harsh winter
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday voiced his serious concern over new restrictionsimposed on opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by the Myanmar authorities.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 19 -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday dismissed pleas from President Bush, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and other Western leaders to allow a force of 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers into the violence-wracked Darfur region.
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Taiwanese President Chen Shui-ban says Taiwan&#39;s exclusion from the United Nations has turned his people into what he called &quot;victims of political apartheid.
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has renewed an appeal to Burma to free detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all other political prisoners.
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Â· Trip to collect husband's award thrown into doubt Â· Ban seen as test of human rights commitment
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BANGKOK - A UN conference last week banned commercial trade in the rare Irrawaddy dolphin, a move environmentalists said was needed to save the threatened species.
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The head of the United Nations  peacekeeping mission in Haiti warned on Monday against an early  troop withdrawal and said its reconstruction efforts in the  Caribbean nation had limits.
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United Nations, Nov. 20 (PTI): Expressing anger over UN Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s dismissal of charges of favouritism against the world body&#39;s top investigator Dileep Nair of Singapore, the UN staff council
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The UN suspends two peacekeepers serving in Burundi following allegations of sexual misconduct.
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He also said that the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, led by Nobel peace laureate and anti-landmines campaigner Jody Williams, would not be allowed to travel to Darfur because its members were biased.Comment