U.N. votes against U.S. embargo on Cuba for 16th year
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The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to urge the United States to lift its four-decade-old embargo against Cuba in a resolution adopted for the 16th consecutive year.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an appeal procedure for people and groups subject to sanctions because of suspected ties to al Qaeda and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers.
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U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15: Japan, Argentina, Denmark, Greece and Tanzania were elected non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council by the UN General Assembly on Friday for two years.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. UNITED NATIONS -- France circulated Sunday a UN draft resolution calling for an arms embargo against Ivory Coast
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The United States cast the first U.N. Security Council veto in nearly two years Thursday, blocking an Arab-backed resolution that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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The United States lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, Haitian officials said, while U.N. peacekeepers and an ill-equipped police force faced sporadic violence on Tuesday in strongholds belonging to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Cuba hailed on Wednesday a decision by the new United Nations human rights watchdog to drop the communist nation from a list of countries with poor rights records, calling it a major diplomatic victory over its longtime ideological foe the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - The 192-member U.N. General Assembly is expected to  vote, perhaps by early or mid-November, on one of the most  divisive political issues before the world body: a moratorium on  the death penalty.
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The Security Council voted unanimously Friday to wrap up the U.N. peacebuilding mission in Sierra Leone in September 2008, praising this year's democratic elections and efforts to professionalize its armed forces.
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The U.N. Security Council on  Monday imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast and  voted to punish key government and rebel leaders with  additional sanctions next month.
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HAVANA, Oct. 22 -- Cuban officials said Monday there was a large voter turnout in municipal elections that started a process leading to next year's decision on whether to keep Fidel Castro atop the communist-run island's supreme governing body.
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Cuba has won approval for a draft resolution at the 21-nation Ibero-American Summit condemning a Panamanian pardon for four men accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro at a meeting four years ago.
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Several UN Security Council members objected on Thursday to a US draft resolution that threatens oil sanctions against Sudan but they supported a large
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq for one year, a move that Iraq's prime minister said would be his nation's "final request" for help.
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ALGIERS, Algeria, Sep 19, 2004 (PANA) -- Algeria&#39;s permanent representative at the United Nations, Abdallah Baali, has said that the North African country abstained from voting on a Security Council resolution last week because the text was not fair to
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Friends and adversaries of the  United States voted overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly  on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic,  financial and commercial embargo against Cuba.