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Although the world is a much different place since the United Nations was founded 67 years ago, the structure of the world's most authoritative international body remains almost unchanged, making it ever more difficult to meet its commitments to world peace Gå til kilden
Syrian forces were accused of summarily executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated from a shelled town the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy. Gå til kilden
Leaked report to UN committee by panel of sanctions-monitoring experts says Tehran violating UN Security Council ban. Gå til kilden
More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN is warning. Gå til kilden
Since rebels seized control of much of Mali's vast northern desert region, tens of thousands of people, mainly from Tuareg communities, have fled to neighbouring countries. BBC Afrique's Maud Julien visited the refugee camp of Mbera in Mauritania. Gå til kilden
A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released on Wednesday Gå til kilden
The head of UN observers mission to Syria said Tuesday the number of UN military observers has exceeded 200, stressing that the observers are tracking and documenting all violations of the cease-fire truce brokered by the UN-Arab League joint envoy Kofi Annan, according to state-run SANA news agency. (Xinhua/Hazim)
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U.N. observers who were stranded overnight in a Syrian town after their convoy struck an explosive device have made it safely to the city of Hama, the United Nations said Wednesday Gå til kilden
One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organisation figures released on Wednesday.
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Efforts by the United Nations to ease rules for carbon-cutting projects may encourage investments in small-scale projects in solar water heaters and efficient cookstoves in Africa and Asia.
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Sub-Saharan Africa posts economic growth rates higher than the worldwide average but has the planet's greatest food security problems, the UN development agency said in a report Tuesday.
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It's been a month since the "cease-fire" was due to come into effect in Syria as the first step in a U.N.-backed peace plan, with a team of U.N. monitors on the ground to observe the progress Gå til kilden
The next time a headline tells of a sharp fall in measles deaths around the world, or an increase in those on treatment for HIV, or the shifting of the burden of cancer, spare a thought for the number-crunchers behind such far-reaching data.
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Palestinian official tells Al Jazeera deal has been reached in Cairo, but prisoners have yet to review the proposal.
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A major funding gap is threatening efforts to boost food security and development in the Sahel region of West Africa and in the Horn of Africa in the east, a senior United Nations official warned today.
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The bombings that tore through Damascus on Thursday morning were the sixth terrorist attack to have struck the city since December.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to impose fresh sanctions on Syria as a U.N.-backed peace plan -- along with all other diplomatic efforts -- has yet to stop the carnage that mounts every day.
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A meeting of emerging economic heavyweights in New Delhi earlier this year received generous press coverage. The so-called BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – pledged to expand mutual trade and discussed the possibility of a new development agency to balance the Western-dominated global financial system.
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Gulam recalls the evening she fled her home in northern Afghanistan on foot, running with her teen daughters under the cloak of darkness to avoid cooking a dinner for 20 Taliban insurgents.
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A third of the world's population is carrying tuberculosis, and the disease could become incurable if governments fail to act, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. Lack of funding for public health programmes, the sale of inaccurate blood tests and the misuse of drugs, particularly in the private health sector, are hampering the fight against the disease and leading to drug resistance, says the organisation. Gå til kilden
The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which began in late 2010, is bad and getting worse, for reasons that are well understood and that the aid community has done far too little to resolve. A chronic lack of access to clean water and sanitation make Haitians vulnerable to spreading sickness, especially as spring rains bring floods, as they always do. Summer hurricanes are bound to come; more misery and death will follow. The Pan American Health Organization has said the disease could strike 200,000 to 250,000 people this year. It has already killed more than 7,000. Gå til kilden
Israel and the Palestinian Authority issued a rare joint statement on Saturday, saying they were committed to peace after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched an envoy to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The head of the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees today urged the Israeli Government to find an acceptable solution to the issue of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, noting their demands are generally related to basic prisoners’ rights as stipulated in the Geneva Conventions. Gå til kilden
The nations' failure to resolve a border dispute and a row over oil revenue has hit both economies hard, with businesses facing collapse and prices soaring. Gå til kilden
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has called on Sudan to move its troops out of the disputed territory of Abyei after rival South Sudan withdrew its security forces. Gå til kilden
A senior United Nations relief official today urged the international community to build on the effective delivery of aid that helped roll back last year's famine in Somalia, noting that about 2.5 million people in the Horn of Africa country remain in need of humanitarian support. Gå til kilden
Africa has the potential to feed its population and even the rest of the world if only it can fully exploit its abundant arable land, a former senior official from the World Food Program (WFP) has said. Gå til kilden
Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said Friday the biggest challenge for the upcoming Rio+20 summit is to reach consensus and "to conciliate multiple interests." Gå til kilden
This week's show focuses on the environment as we take a look at what is being done to the planet and how some are trying to fix those wrongs.
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