U.N. council delays debate on Somalia peacekeeping
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Backed by the African Union,  Somalia's government appealed to the United Nations on Friday  to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Security Council  delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
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The U.N. Security Council  authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia  for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital  and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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The U.N. Security Council authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28 -- The United States has finalized a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorize a force of East African peacekeepers to intervene in Somalia to prevent the overthrow of the country's struggling government at the hands of Islamic militias. But some European...
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East African leaders pushed ahead on   Tuesday with a contested plan to send peacekeepers to Somalia,   despite a military deal between the country's rival powers that   appeared to block foreign intervention.
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Militants claiming to hold three U.N. hostages in Afghanistan postponed a Friday deadline for carrying out their threat to kill the trio, giving United Nations and Afghan officials another day to open negotiations.
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The United Nations Security Council debates Israel's blockade of Gaza, with angry exchanges between envoys.
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Sudan's failure to approve some non-African units of a U.N.-African peacekeeping force for Darfur is delaying preparations for its January 1 deployment, a U.N. official warned on Thursday.
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Disagreement on wording forces the UN Security Council to abandon efforts for a statement on Gaza.
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The debate is delaying a decision about whether to use a strategy of diplomacy or isolation in dealing with Iran.
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The top United Nations envoy to Sudan postponed talks Wednesday with rebel officials in southern Sudan until he can meet with their leader to negotiate the deployment of up to 10,000 peacekeepers to monitor an accord aimed at ending Africa's longest-running 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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Sudan's failure to approve some  non-African units of a U.N.-African peacekeeping force for  Darfur is delaying preparations for its January 1 deployment, a  U.N. official warned on Thursday.
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The U.N. Security Council voted on Monday to extend the mandate of a peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast until January to help create peaceful conditions for elections that have been repeatedly delayed.
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The European Union and the United States agreed Wednesday to delay a U.N. vote on a resolution that would give Kosovo independence under international supervision until after this week's Group of Eight summit discussion.
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The U.N. Security Council renewed an arms embargo and asset freeze aimed at rebels in Congo for another six weeks on Friday, after U.N. peacekeepers reported clashes that threaten a cease-fire.
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Somalia's prime minister urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to send peacekeepers to his country, but council members told him they wanted to see political progress toward peace first.