UN peacekeepers pinned down in Eritrea
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Eritrean officials refused to grant U.N. peacekeepers permission to cross from Eritrea into Ethiopia, prompting them to regroup in the capital instead, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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Two UN peacekeepers are shot in Haiti over the weekend amid increasing tensions on the island.
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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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RMAILEH, Lebanon  - Two U.N. peacekeeping soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in south Lebanon on Tuesday, a spokesman for the United Nations force said.
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The Security Council renewed the mandate of the struggling U.N. peace force on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border for six months on Wednesday despite a request from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for just one month.
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Faced with a new threat from Sunni militants, UN peacekeepers turn to Hizbullah for protection.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- Militia fighters wounded two UN soldiers yesterday when they fired on peacekeeping troops sent to investigate a reported mass grave of militia victims, including child combatants, in northeastern Ituri Province, a spokesman for the United Nations said.
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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Eritrea has warned of a fresh eruption of &quot;chaos and turmoil&quot; in Somalia if the UN Security Council approves the deployment of African peacekeepers in the lawless African nation.
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Gunmen ambushed a United Nations convoy in Darfur in the first attack against the peacekeepers since their mission began this month, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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The U.N. Security Council convened an emergency session Friday after the U.N. chief said Eritrea is obstructing the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the border region near Ethiopia.
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BAZOURIYA, Lebanon -- There are two faces to the UN force today in Lebanon, ensuring a cease-fire that ended 33 days of war with Israel. One has a certain swagger: more than 4,800 soldiers, 14 French battle tanks, four 155 mm artillery guns, 10 Italian amphibious assault vehicles, and an array of armored personnel carriers. The other is a contingent ...
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The U.N. Security Council on Friday strongly condemned Eritrea's "lack of cooperation" with the U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the disputed border, demanding that it resume providing fuel and food and allow troops to move freely into Ethiopia.
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Eritrea has arrested some United  Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and  Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people  out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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The UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea said Sunday it was ready to assist in a potential operation to rescue a British embassy tour group abducted in Ethiopia on March 1.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in  fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which  around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United  Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - UN air and ground patrols have photographed freshly occupied encampments and unidentified well-equipped troops in east Congo, UN officials said Thursday, bolstering suspicions that Rwanda is making good on its threat to send troops into its larger, weaker neighbour.