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UN DAILY NEWS -26 August - The top United Nations official in Iraq continues to work to promote political dialogue and national reconciliation across the country, including over the disputed status of the northern city of Kirkuk, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday (26/08). MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 26 August - The United Nations envoy to Myanmar held talks on Tuesday (26/08) in Jakarta with senior Indonesian officials as part of his continuing consultations with regional leaders on the Asian country. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 26 August - The head of the United Nations culture agency on Tuesday (26/08) condemned the murder of a senior Iraqi Government official who had long worked to protect and preserve his country’s cultural heritage. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 20 August - The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights in Somalia has welcomed Monday’s signing of a peace agreement between the country’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and an opposition group, calling it “a hopeful sign” in the war-torn nation. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 20 August - Further measures are necessary to curb child exploitation across East Asia and the Pacific, despite the recent positive steps taken to tackle the issue in the region, a United Nations-backed gathering said on Wednesday (20/08). MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 19 August - The United Nations on Tuesday (19/09) honoured those killed and injured in the terrorist attack on the world body’s headquarters in Baghdad five years ago, at a solemn ceremony in New York that included a classical music piece composed in memory of the fallen. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 19 August - Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced on Tuesday (19/08) that the United Nations and Samoa plan to establish an Inter-Agency Climate Change Centre to help coordinate support to Pacific Island countries to combat the impact of global warming in their region. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 19 August - Around 2000 civil society groups are slated to attend the upcoming annual United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) conference on non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which will focus this year on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a senior UN official said on Tuesday (19/08). MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 18 August - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday (18/08) welcomed the launch of a new United Nations facility promoting disarmament and non-proliferation in the Asia-Pacific region. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS -18 August - The European branch of the world’s largest car maker, Toyota, on Monday (18/08) became one of six companies to join the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative bringing together organizations which pledge to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 18 August - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has stressed the importance of sanitation and hygiene in schools as events are held around the globe to mark World Water Week, which began on Sunday (17/08). MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 12 August - Plant mutation, a scientific technique that dramatically improves crop productivity, could be part of the solution to the current food and energy crisis that threatens to plunge millions worldwide into hunger, according to a United Nations expert on the subject. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS- 12 August - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday (12/08) he was “deeply troubled” by the outcome of a probe that has revealed prima facie evidence that a number of Indian peacekeepers, previously assigned to one of the units with the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), may have engaged in sexual exploitation and abuse. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 12 August - International postal services are keeping pace and moving forward with the onset of globalization and advances in technology, the head of the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU) said on Tuesday (12/08). MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 11 August - The joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) reported on Monday (11/08) that one of its helicopters came under fire in West Darfur. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 11 August - United Nations humanitarian and development officials are monitoring the situation in the mountains of northern Viet Nam, where heavy rains resulting from a recent tropical storm have killed dozens of people and caused a series of flash floods and landslides. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 9 August - The suffering of indigenous peoples around the world “includes some of the darkest episodes in human history,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday (9/08), marking the annual International Day of the World's Indigenous People. MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 4 August - The latest adventures of Rattus Holmes and Felis Watson – a tale of sport and athletes who cheat by taking banned drugs – can be found on a website run by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), starting on Monday (4/7). MORE |
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UN DAILY NEWS - 1 August - In lieu of his usual business suit, United Nations Secretary-General donned a more casual outfit, as part of the “Cool UN” initiative which seeks to curb the world body’s greenhouse gas emissions, which kicked off on Monday. MORE |
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