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HAITI-U.N.: Officials See Rosy Future for Aristide Government /REPEAT/
Haiti is as secure as it has ever been following the near-completion of parliamentary elections, the top U.N. official in that country says.HAITI-U.N.: Officials See Rosy Future for Aristide Government
Haiti is as secure as it has ever been following the near-completion of parliamentary elections, the top U.N. official in that country says.UNITED STATES: Muslims’ Guilty Verdicts Bring Sedition Concerns
The conviction of 10 Muslim radicals on charges of seditious conspiracy could spark a resurgence of the use of decades-old laws, lawyers here warn.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Muslim Countries Gain Voice Over Peace Pact
After years of dismay over U.N. efforts in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Muslim nations are saying their voices are finally being heard here.JAPAN-FINANCE: Daiwa Scandal Leads to Questions on Bank Oversight
The sudden reported loss this week of one billion dollars from Japan's Daiwa Bank has sparked new fears that the world banking system lacks accountability.UNITED STATES: Chicago Heat Wave Raises Temperature for Changes
The United States has been hot this month -- so hot that hundreds of people in Chicago may have been killed, and hot enough that people are clamouring for a change.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Tribunal Indicts Karadzic, Mladic
The U.N. tribunal judging war crimes throughout the former Yugoslavia further complicated the crisis Tuesday with its indictments of Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic.AFRICA: United Nations Is Cutting and Running, Diplomats Say
U.N. peacekeepers pulled out of Somalia last March and Mozambique a month later. The U.N. Security Council is warning it may now withdraw its peacekeepers from Western Sahara and its small observer force from Liberia.IRAQ: Baghdad Admits to Biological Weapons, U.N. Officials Say
Iraq built and maintained a substantial arsenal of toxic biological compounds prior to the 1991 Gulf War, U.N. officials have revealed.UNITED NATIONS: Sanctions Never Work, Says Former U.N. Official
Over a period of 17 months, the United Nations sanctions committee for the former Yugoslavia has approved so many humanitarian deliveries of shoes that every Serb should by now have about 11 pairs.CULTURE-NORTH AMERICA: Here Come the Culture Jammers
The advertisement is like hundreds of others on billboards throughout the United States and the world: waif-thin British model Kate Moss peers out at viewers, draped in loose, chic black clothing from the Calvin Klein company.UNITED NATIONS: Calls for Change Abound at Fiftieth Anniversary
The United Nations may deserve a day to rest on its laurels, but its fiftieth anniversary is not that day.BURUNDI-HUMAN RIGHTS: Burundi Divided over Need for U.N. Help
For a year and a half, human rights groups and the government of Burundi have asked the United Nations for help in investigating the killing of some 50,000 people in 1993.WESTERN SAHARA: U.N. Group Seeks Tighter Control over Mission
A U.N. Security Council mission to the Western Sahara warns that the Council will have to monitor that country's sluggish peace process closely, or else the U.N. peacekeeping mission there will fail.UNITED STATES: Counterterrorism Bill Worries Civil Rights Groups
Muslims breathed a collective sigh of relief two months ago when the culprits of the Apr 19 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City were found to be white, Christian Americans.IRAQ: Iraq Is No Longer a Military Threat, Says U.N. Monitor
The United Nations has moved a step closer toward giving Iraq a clean bill of health on scrapping its weapons of mass destruction.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Muslim Assault Complicates U.N. Plans
The sudden attack by Bosnia's Muslim-led government against Bosnian Serb separatists has thrown the United Nations' plans in the Balkans for a loop.BOOKS: Asia’s ‘Other’ Voices
Thanks to her troubles with Bangladeshi Islamist leaders and her notoriety as "the female Salman Rushdie", Bangladeshi poet-novelist Taslima Nasreen has won notice as the leading South Asian feminist writer today.WESTERN SAHARA: U.N. Mission Shows Frustration
The dispatch last weekend of a U.N. Security Council mission to Western Sahara is the latest sign that the world body's plans for a referendum there are in deep trouble.U.S.-GULF: ‘Dual Containment’ Policy Befuddles Experts, Allies
Washington's policy to isolate Iran and Iraq, economically and politically, has fast become an isolated exception to President Bill Clinton's general enthusiasm for free trade and an annoyance to many businessmen and allies alike.GUATEMALA: U.N. Agency Finds Impunity for Rights Abuses
In its first report on human rights in Guatemala, the United Nations has sharply criticised Guatemalan authorities for failing to act against serious abuses.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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