Diplomat to oversee U.N. security probe
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A veteran Algerian diplomat was named Tuesday to oversee a review of United Nations security worldwide in the wake of December's terrorist attack on U.N. offices in Algiers.
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A three-strong team of experts will  travel to Lebanon on Saturday to begin a probe into allegations  of human rights violations by Israel during last month's war, a  top United Nations official announced on Monday.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuse in what activists called a "timid" first step to confront the crisis.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday summoned to New York top U.N. officials from a meeting abroad to find out how a potentially lethal chemical warfare agent was stored in U.N. offices in Manhattan.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog  agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's  Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuse in what  activists called a "timid" first step to confront the crisis.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Monday he would appoint a secret negotiator to mediate   between Israel and Hizbollah for the release of two Israeli   soldiers seized in July.
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The head of a U.N. inquiry into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri said on Monday he had made progress in analyzing the crime scene in Beirut and investigating suspects.
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U.N. inspectors, barred from most of Iraq since last year's invasion, are ready to return to probe the disappearance of equipment that could be used in atomic weapons, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.
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The U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings said on Friday he plans to investigate deaths caused by the U.S. military and contractors in Iraq, including the recent Blackwater case in Baghdad.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog plans to urge the Bush administration next week to ease its push for tough U.N. Security Council action against Iran, diplomats said Friday.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is pushing for a fresh look at an Iranian military complex linked by the United States to possible atomic arms research just days after being granted limited access, diplomats said Tuesday.
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A United Nations panel on Wednesday recommended an independent probe into alleged human rights violations in Ethiopia&#39;s Ogaden region, where the army has cracked down on rebels.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States is investigating a high-ranking official in the Defence Department who is suspected of spying for the Israeli government.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan is sending a special envoy to Sudan to try to clarify the status of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force for conflict-wracked Darfur, U.N. officials said Monday.
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Lebanon's prime minister has asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize U.N. investigators to help probe last week's killing of an anti-Syrian lawmaker in a massive car bombing in Beirut.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday corruption allegations in the Iraqi oil-for-food program had cast a shadow over the United Nations but said again he would not resign as the world's top diplomat. To meet criticism in the Republican-dominated US Congress that the United Nations was withholding documents, Annan said a UN probe led by Paul Volcker, the former ...
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met Friday with a scandal-stung predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, and his spokeswoman described the visit as "private and personal" while sidestepping questions about the appropriateness of the meeting.