U.N. chief in Afghanistan, focus on lack of law and order
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a surprise visit to Kabul on Friday to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai ahead of a conference in Rome next week that will seek ways to improve law and order in Afghanistan.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Kabul to visit New York to attend the UN General Assembly and hold bilateral meetings with other world leaders, the foreign ministry said.
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MANILA -- A United Nations human rights expert criticized the Philippine military and government yesterday for not doing enough to solve a wave of political killings, many of which he said could be linked to government security forces.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN&#39;s peacekeeping chief warned of a surge in violence after the massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi and called on all parties to step back from the brink of war.
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The leaders of the United Nations, NATO  and Afghanistan gather in Rome this week for a conference aimed  at shoring up Kabul&#39;s &quot;law and order&quot; agenda, even as the  nation slips deeper into conflict.
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Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf wants Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to stop the finger-pointing and agree to "a verbal cease-fire" and stepped-up intelligence cooperation to fight terrorism, Pakistan's foreign minister said Wednesday.
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The Pentagon does not have a clear picture about the state of the war in Afghanistan, with U.S. commanders on the ground offering positive assessments while intelligence reports are more negative, the U.S. Marine Corps chief said on Friday.
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The U.N. chief said Monday the deadly security situation in Iraq was making it difficult to expand the world body's role in the chaotic nation.
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Algerian authorities had not responded to a request for tighter security around UN premises that were the target of a suicide attack in Algiers last month, the head of the UN development agency (UNDP) said Wednesday.
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Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar purportedly said in an audiotape aired Sunday that Afghanistan&#039;s government and the U.S.-led coalition supporting it do not have the wisdom to solve the nation&#039;s crisis.
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The United Nations has not kept an up-to-date list of al-Qaida and Taliban leaders targeted by international sanctions, harming both the fight against terrorism and efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, a key U.N. counterterror official said Friday.
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The UN secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday deplored the widespread violence in Kenya and urged political leaders to resolve the crisis over disputed elections through "dialogue, negotiation and compromise."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leaders decided  in the absence of President Yasser Arafat on Sunday to carry  out a plan to restore law and order in the West Bank and Gaza,  a government minister said.
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The world must not neglect Afghanistan now that its presidential election is over because upcoming parliamentary and local elections will be far harder to manage, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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An Army brigadier general who inspected U.S.-run detention centers in Afghanistan last summer found many shortcomings, including inadequate enforcement of approved interrogation rules, officials said Friday.
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This powerful Afghan tribal leader offered to help the U.S., but is in a New York jail awaiting trial on drug charges. How the war on terror is at war with the war on drugs