Republicans say U.N. agency fired whistle-blower
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Republicans in the U.S. Congress  are accusing the U.N. Development Program of firing a  whistle-blower connected with the agency&#39;s North Korea program,  a target of the Bush administration.
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Kosovo's top U.N. official on Wednesday fired the police commissioner after weekend clashes between police and ethnic Albanian protesters led to the deaths of two people. Joachim Ruecker, the U.N. official in charge of administering Kosovo, said he had demanded the resignation of U.N. police commissioner Stephen Curtis, effective immediately, in the wake of the violence.
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Some House Democrats are coming to the defense of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan after several Republican lawmakers called for his resignation because of allegations of corruption
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan pledged full cooperation Thursday with investigations into alleged abuses in a U.N. oil and aid program that have led Republicans in Congress to demand his resignation. He said U.N. employees can be fired if they do not comply.
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A former U.N. Middle East envoy  quit his job last month with bitter allegations that U.N.  policy in the region had failed because it was subservient to  U.S. and Israeli interests, a newly leaked document shows.
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A US senator heading a panel investigating the UN's scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program called for UN chief Kofi Annan's resignation in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
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An interpreter responsible for an erroneous report that Syria has a nuclear facility has been reprimanded and the United Nations has apologized to Syria's U.N. Mission, a U.N. official said.
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The Republican leader of the U.S.  House of Representatives said his office knew a year ago about  inappropriate contact between a former intern and newly  resigned Rep. Mark Foley and called on Saturday for a criminal  probe of the matter.
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A House ethics panel has concluded  that Republicans failed to adequately respond to warnings about  a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the  U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.
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A prominent politician and journalist embroiled in a recent controversy over the death of a British hostage in Iraq has been fired from senior posts in the Conservative Party because of a sex scandal, the party said Saturday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 -- A United Nations-appointed investigator probing corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food program has rejected a request by a Senate committee to strip U.N. officials of their immunity so they can testify before Congress. The U.N. official agreed to release, at a time of his choosing, internal audits of the program and other confidential documents sought by Congress.
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Some House Democrats are coming to the defense of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after several Republican lawmakers called for his resignation because of allegations of corruption in the organization's oil-for-food program.
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WASHINGTON  - More US congressional Republicans called Monday for the resignation of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, with one suggesting the UN chief should go to jail.
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A former U.N. Middle East envoy quit his job last month with bitter allegations that U.N. policy in the region had failed because it was subservient to U.S. and Israeli interests, a newly leaked document shows.
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House Republican leaders mounted an effort to explain their own conduct after the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley and suggested there should be a criminal investigation of Foley's contacts with congressional pages. The scandal comes just weeks before the November 7 midterm elections, and Republicans were hurriedly trying to find someone to replace Foley.
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The U.N. Staff Council urged Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to order the U.N. anti-poverty agency to cooperate in an investigation of claims that a former agency staffer in North Korea suffered retaliation for being a whistleblower.
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The Iraqi National Congress has fired a senior official for visiting Israel, an INC spokesman said yesterday. Ahmed Chalabi&#39;s INC called an emergency meeting yesterday and fired Mithal al-Alousi