U.N. peacekeepers to enter fray again
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They first landed in the Middle East in 1956, with lofty goals and helmets painted blue. But over the next half-century, dug in between Arab and Jew, U.N. peacekeepers often found little peace to keep.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned, one year after the suicide bombing of its headquarters in Baghdad, that the United Nations may have become a prime target of political violence in what could impede its mission to help the world's people.
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THE United Nations&#39; quest to reform the Security Council has turned into a public brawl between aspiring powers seeking a permanent seat at the top table and a larger number of jealous neighbours seeking to keep them out.
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GOMA, Congo  - United Nations peacekeepers in  helicopters and armored troop carriers headed for the front  line in eastern Congo on Tuesday to stop renegade soldiers  advancing further after more than a week of fighting.
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Rival army units in Democratic Republic of Congo clashed on Saturday not far from Rwanda, the United Nations said, in another sign of military and political turmoil in the east of the former Zaire.
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GONAIVES -- Two UN peacekeepers were wounded in shootouts with angry storm survivors and supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, officials said yesterday of the first casualties during the force's 4-month-old mission in Haiti. Relief workers for Doctors of the World also were attacked in storm-battered Gonaives on Saturday night, and the French agency said yesterday it was evacuating its ...
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UN peacekeepers try for a second day to control protests by supporters of deposed President Aristide.
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Fighting resumed on Sunday between troops loyal to the Congolese government and dissident units around the eastern town of Kanyabayonga, the United Nations mission in the central African country said.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti has just over 40 percent of its troops and is facing a deteriorating security situation with armed groups still controlling parts of the country, according to U.N. diplomats and officials.
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...
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Authorities in Sierra Leone's capital assumed official responsibility for security Thursday from the dwindling U.N. peacekeeping force that helped end the country's civil war two years ago.
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The U.N. Security Council must be prepared to commit peacekeepers to East Timor for many years if it orders forces back to the shattered nation as expected, a U.N. envoy said Wednesday.
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As Kofi Annan tries to mediate a settlement between the factions, a political assassination and tribal violence exacerbate the crisis
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - U.N. peacekeepers are  scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes  region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in  western Burundi, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Five years after 'liberation,' UN officials are again working on a plan for the political status of the province.
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Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan set Tuesday as a target for Kenya's government and opposition to name negotiators to try to end tribal violence in which more than 800 people have been killed.
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Conflict could resume between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the UN says, as it prepares to pull out its peacekeepers.