UN chief warns of Iraq civil war
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for urgent action to bring Iraq back from the brink of "full-scale civil war".
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Iraq must push ahead with Jan. 30  elections despite relentless bloodshed, voter intimidation and  attacks on electoral staff, the chief U.N. election official in  the country said Sunday.
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Iraq's president urged the United Nations Tuesday to look into whether the country should go ahead with its scheduled Jan. 30 election despite violence threatening to scare voters away from the polls.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq that new military campaigns in Fallujah and other insurgent strongholds could jeopardize upcoming elections, according to a letter obtained Friday.
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A powerful Shiite leader denounced U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call for an international conference on Iraq to prevent a fast-approaching all-out civil war.
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The UN chief says escalating violence in Sudan's Darfur region risks suffering on a "catastrophic scale".
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday at a business conference here that the war in Iraq "could be considered a civil war," the conference organizer said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan questioned on Wednesday whether Iraq could hold elections  in January if violence persisted and said the U.S.-led invasion  of Iraq was illegal because it violated the U.N. Charter.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Thursday to issue ``the strongest warning&#39;&#39; to the forces fighting in Sudan to bring an end to the civil wars there.
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United Nations: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has strongly opposed US plans for a major military assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah, warning that it could further divide Iraqi people and affect the January polls in the war-ravaged country.
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US army chief General Richard Myers said in an interview that civil war could erupt in Iraq after forthcoming elections.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned the United States, Britain and Iraq that a planned assault on Fallujah could undermine planned elections in January, diplomats said.
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A crackdown on insurgents in Iraqi  hotspots like Falluja must be carefully conducted to avoid  losing a battle for the hearts and minds of Iraqis, U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
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UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon issues a warning to the world.
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London, Oct. 18 (NNN) : United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the US-led war on Iraq has not made the world a safer place, according to BBC and Voice of America.
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The UN chief warns against an assault on rebel-held Falluja, as US troops begin pounding the city's outskirts.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war and derail elections, as thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs