George Clooney named U.N. messenger of peace
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the world body's peacekeeping efforts.
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U.S. actor George Clooney and  Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel told the U.N. Security Council on  Thursday the world would be blamed for another Rwanda if  atrocities were not halted in Sudan's Darfur region.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 14 -- South Korean diplomat Ban Ki Moon was sworn in Thursday as the United Nations' eighth secretary general in a ritualistic General Assembly ceremony as the United States and other countries  praised Kofi Annan's 10-year stewardship of the world's premier political institution....
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George Clooney lobbied Wednesday for Egypt's help in getting protection for victims of Darfur's increasing violence.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan received an unusual standing ovation in the 191-nation  General Assembly on Wednesday following calls for his  resignation from conservative U.S. lawmakers.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan won   a pledge from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday to   help implement a U.N. resolution that halted fighting between   Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah group, a spokesman said.
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Rebels in Nigeria's oil producing Niger  Delta on Saturday invited the United Nations' new "messenger of  peace," actor George Clooney, to step into its conflict with  the government over oil wealth.
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KOFI ANNAN has had better weeks. On Monday, the UN secretary general woke up to a Wall Street Journal column by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, publisher of the influential InstaPundit
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Actor George Clooney officially becomes a United Nations peace envoy at a ceremony in New York.
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Hollywood star George Clooney is honoured by the French government for his achievements in cinema.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  named a U.S. general Monday to act as security coordinator for  a budding new peace process between Israel and the  Palestinians.
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George Clooney and Don Cheadle brought their Darfur campaign to Rome on Thursday, where they received a peace award for their efforts to raise awareness on the humanitarian crisis in the region.
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An American was appointed to head U.N. political affairs on Friday after the United States vied for the first time to hold the post that negotiates agreements in a variety of crisis points around the world, the United Nations announced.
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The 192-nation General Assembly  paid tribute on Friday to Kurt Waldheim, the fourth U.N.  secretary-general, without mentioning his tarnished legacy as  an officer in Nazi Germany&#39;s army in the Balkans.
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Oscar-winning US actor George Clooney and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel pleaded with the UN Security Council to act to end the &quot;genocide&quot; in Sudan's Darfur region amid fears African Union (AU) peacekeepers may pull out.
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href="http://yahoo.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,15,00.html?yhnws">George   Clooney, who was instrumental in pulling together America: A Tribute   to Heroes following the events of September 11, has signed on to   help NBC line up celebrities for its tsunami-aid telethon scheduled for   Jan.15.
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Hollywood hunk George Clooney, has reportedly signed on to help NBC line up celebrities for its tsunami-aid telethon scheduled for Jan.15.