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More than $14 billion has been spent on Israel's West Bank settlements during the past four decades, according to a study released Friday, one of the most comprehensive attempts to assess the total expenditures for the communities.
U.N. officials investigating the killing of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri warned on Wednesday that those who carried out the attack still had the ability and resources to strike again in Beirut.
As would-be peacemakers bask in the international limelight of the Annapolis conference, back in the Middle East two other parties are serving up notice that no deal will come to pass, if they can help it: Iran and its Palestinian ally, Hamas.
Ban listed several threatened world "treasures," such as melting Antarctic ice and the drying out of the Amazon rainforest into a savanna. He talked of children wearing protective clothing for ultraviolet radiation in Punta Arenas, Chile, under the hole in the ozone layer.
Iran sent a letter to the world's top diplomats on Tuesday to argue its case in the deepening nuclear row with the West, official media reported.
The naysayers will surely have something to say about this but I doubt any of them are Nobel prize winners like the panel that produced this report.
U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar on Saturday for his second effort to reconcile the ruling military and its pro-democracy opponents. But he will also have to deal with the junta's plan to expel the top U.N. diplomat in the country.
It's happened again. This time the minor victims were from Haiti. The BBC reported:
PARIS (Reuters) - Iran would need another three to eight years to make a nuclear bomb, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in an interview published on Monday, warning against any rush to use force to curb its nuclear ambitions.
OSLO, Oct. 12 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Al Gore, the former vice president, and to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its work to alert the world to the threat of global warming.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct.
For more than 10 years, the United States has used an unlikely freelance connection to communicate with "axis of evil" member North Korea: Robert Egan, a barbecue-joint owner, former small-time criminal, and erstwhile F.B.I. informant from New Jersey.
CAN THIS MAN BE TRUSTED? While this post, at first glance, may seem a little off-topic, I think you'll see that it deals with problems in our education system.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday that the continued flow of weapons, suicide bombers and terrorism funding into his country would result in "disastrous consequences" for the region and the world.
From his official website: "The Second Amendment
September 23, 2007 -- An international meeting is taking place in New York to review the progress of reconstruction in Afghanistan, six years after the fall of the Taliban regime.
Taiwan's five diplomatic allies in Africa yesterday issued a joint declaration supporting the island's bid to join the United Nations. The allies include Swaziland, Burkina Faso, Sao Tome and Principe, Malawi and Gambia.
Suicide attacks in Afghanistan have risen by a factor of seven in the past year, according to the U.N.
The United States said on Friday there was potential merit to Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher U.N. sanctions.
There is no evidence for the Iranian president's announcement that Iran has 3,000 centrifuges running, which would allow it to produce significant amounts of nuclear fuel, diplomats familiar with U.N. inspections said.
Iran's deal with United Nations inspectors to resolve questions about its nuclear program will fall short of dispelling suspicions about clandestine efforts to build nuclear weapons, diplomats say.
A former U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, recently purchased a second multimillion-dollar house, this one in a posh neighborhood in Tangier, Morocco, where his neighbors are said to include pop stars and the country's king, sources said.
The U.M. World Meteorological Association has linked 13 extreme weather events from the first part of 2007 to global warming. Here is a map showing what they were and where they happened.
The U.N. will send a force of 26,000 to "monitor" progress in Darfur
SEOUL, South Korea, July 16 — Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency have confirmed that North Korea has shut down its weapons-making nuclear reactor, the agency said today.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about worsening violence in Iraq and where US policy on Iraq might be heading.
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