Seeking to make the world of autism a little smaller, members of the international diplomatic community gathered Friday at the United Nations World Focus on Autism.
An explosion rattled Myanmar's main city, Yangon, on Thursday morning, the eve of the one-year anniversary of a junta crackdown on anti-government protesters, police said.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday applauded the release of several political prisoners by the government of Myanmar, including the nation's longest-serving political prisoner.
World leaders meeting at the General Assembly this week face a global financial crisis that threatens the United Nations' efforts to generate billions of dollars to fight poverty, especially in Africa.
Back in his native South Korea, the Korean Foreign Ministry nicknamed him "Ban-chusa," meaning "the Bureaucrat" or "the administrative clerk."
Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to "allow all aid workers regardless of nationalities" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in China Saturday to observe earthquake relief efforts, China's state-run news agency reported.
The supply and demand of oil around the world is "normal," a key adviser to Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Friday, pointing to factors including speculators and currency fluctuations for rocketing oil prices.
The Saudis have finally promised to increase oil output. But energy experts are skeptical it will bring much relief
Oil prices briefly spiked more than $5 per barrel to a trading record Monday, but crude tumbled throughout the afternoon as traders took profits after prices couldn't get over the $140 a barrel hump.
Seeking to make the world of autism a little smaller, members of the international diplomatic community gathered Friday at the United Nations World Focus on Autism.
An explosion rattled Myanmar's main city, Yangon, on Thursday morning, the eve of the one-year anniversary of a junta crackdown on anti-government protesters, police said.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday applauded the release of several political prisoners by the government of Myanmar, including the nation's longest-serving political prisoner.
World leaders meeting at the General Assembly this week face a global financial crisis that threatens the United Nations' efforts to generate billions of dollars to fight poverty, especially in Africa.
Back in his native South Korea, the Korean Foreign Ministry nicknamed him "Ban-chusa," meaning "the Bureaucrat" or "the administrative clerk."
Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to "allow all aid workers regardless of nationalities" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in China Saturday to observe earthquake relief efforts, China's state-run news agency reported.
The supply and demand of oil around the world is "normal," a key adviser to Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Friday, pointing to factors including speculators and currency fluctuations for rocketing oil prices.
The Saudis have finally promised to increase oil output. But energy experts are skeptical it will bring much relief
Oil prices briefly spiked more than $5 per barrel to a trading record Monday, but crude tumbled throughout the afternoon as traders took profits after prices couldn't get over the $140 a barrel hump.
Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month, the kingdom's oil minister told UN chief Ban Ki-moon
A well-known Burmese satirist is in jail after providing aid to cyclone survivors
The merits of increasing biofuel production in the middle of a crisis over skyrocketing food prices is being hotly debated at a United Nations summit, but the top U.S. delegate says consensus on the issue is possible.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon says $15 billion to $20 billion is needed each year to boost food production to combat hunger
Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates was probably behind an explosion outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan, Denmark's intelligence service said Tuesday.
World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, UN chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders
The Israeli government is facing criticism from the White House and the United Nations for its plans to expand Jewish settlements in Jerusalem.
Development plans depend on keeping Africa fed. But a key challenge lies in pressing industrialized countries to deliver on promised aid
"Notable progress" has been made in Iraq despite persistent problems, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday at an international summit to promote peace in the violence-wracked country.
Burma's military rulers have approved visas for dozens of international relief workers and were allowing more foreigners into areas devastated by a cyclone that left millions in need of aid
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Myanmar on Sunday to guide a conference with international agencies aimed at boosting donations for the cyclone-struck nation, now that its ruling military junta has agreed to accept aid.
A leading children's charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers
Aid soon will be able to reach the more than 1 million cyclone victims still waiting for their first assistance if Burma's military regime allows the assistance
China's Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday gave U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon a dramatic look at damage caused by the massive quake that hit Sichuan province earlier this month as the death toll from the catastrophe jumped past 60,000.
International aid is needed to help cyclone-ravaged Myanmar because the country is not equipped to handle the devastation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar's prime minister Thursday.
Asian nations are beginning to focus on the reconstruction needs of Myanmar, devastated by Cyclone Nargis in early May, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
Myanmar's reclusive government has agreed to allow U.N. helicopters into some of the least accessible areas of the country's cyclone-devastated delta, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
The death toll from a killer cyclone in Myanmar could be "in the region of 100,000 or even more," says the chief of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief agency.
Rising food prices, trade tensions and social unrest are prompting a rethink of the EU's ambitious hopes for running cars and trucks on biofuel
The vice president of Zimbabwe's opposition party said top party officials on Saturday reaffirmed their decision not to participate in a runoff for president.
The United Nations is establishing a task force to address the global food crisis, which is "increasingly resulting in social tension," the world body said Tuesday.
The United Nations plans to establish a task force to tackle the global food crisis to avert "social unrest on an unprecedented scale," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis
The failure to release the results of last month's Zimbabwe elections could cause the situation in that country to deteriorate further with "serious implications" for its people, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday.
On the tenth anniversary of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's death, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed Tuesday for the senior leaders of the regime to be brought to justice.
As government billboards called on residents in Buenos Aires to enjoy Friday's planned leg of the Olympic torch run, officials in the Argentine capital were planning for possible disruptions such those that have occurred in other relay cities.
A senior U.N. official says 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers many of whom are killed, maimed, abducted and raped and denied access to humanitarian groups
The death toll from post-election violence in Kenya climbed to more than 1,000 Tuesday as government and opposition politicians discussed plans that could eventually lead to a power-sharing agreement.
Kenya's government Tuesday announced it will find and prosecute anyone who sent "hate text messages" that helped incite ethnic tensions after the contested election in December.
Two days after reaching a plan with the Kenyan government to end violence that has wracked the country for more than a month, the opposition party asked both the United Nations and the African Union to send in peacekeepers.
The Kenyan government and its main opposition group have reached a four-point plan to end violence that has wracked the country for more than a month, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced at a news conference Friday.
The medical aid charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, is pulling international staff out of Somalia after three of its members were killed.
Some of the world's most prominent diplomats are in Kenya trying to prevent an all-out ethnic war from plunging east Africa's most important economy into chaos
A mine exploded Monday on a road in southern Somalia, killing four people -- three members of the medical humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres and a journalist.
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.
If there's a sweet smell at this year's Global Economic Forum, it's unlikely to be success.
A gathering of Presidents and prime ministers looked impressive. But the unspoken question was whether this forum would lead to real change
With over 200 public figures attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss town is set to be a real-life who's who of international statesmen and politicians. Below we've profile a few of this year's big hitters.
Security forces have detained four people in the attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital, authorities said Tuesday.
At least five people and a suicide bomber were killed in a Monday attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, while six others were wounded, officials said.
In a dramatic reversal Saturday, the United States rejected and then accepted a compromise to set the stage for intense negotiations in the next two years aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.
The United States has rejected a proposal Saturday by developing nations to clarify their responsibilities to control greenhouse gas emissions, prolonging a tense logjam blocking agreement on negotiations for a new global warming pact, The Associated Press reports.
International leaders Tuesday rushed to condemn deadly twin bombings in the Algerian capital, which appeared to target government and United Nations buildings. Here is some of the reaction.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is "extremely concerned" about the delay in electing a new Lebanese president, a hiatus that has gone "well past the constitutional timeframe."
The U.N.-backed genocide tribunal opened its first formal hearing in the Cambodian capital on Tuesday with the alleged chief torturer of the Khmer Rouge the first to appear.
Climate change is "severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action" can head it off, a United Nations scientific panel said in a report on global warming issued Saturday.
A U.N. panel's final report on climate change underscores the immense challenge facing the world
Somalia's transitional government shut down the independent Shabelle Radio network Monday, amid a new push by government troops and their Ethiopian allies to put down an insurgency, network managers reported.
New fighting between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents is extinguishing the hope that the chaos was ending
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of the head of the World Food Programme's Mogadishu office after his arrest, a spokesman said.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun signed an eight-point peace agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday at a summit in Pyongyang, North Korea.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed outrage after rebels killed at least 10 African Union soldiers in an unprecented attack on a peacekeeping base in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "urgently dispatching" a special envoy to Myanmar, a statement from his office said Wednesday, following reports of violent clashes in that country between security forces and protesters.
Amid high emotions and tight security, thousands lined the streets of Beirut Friday to honor Antoine Ghanem, the anti-Syrian Lebanese MP killed in a powerful bomb blast along with four others.
Thousands lined the streets of Beirut Friday to honor Antoine Ghanem, the anti-Syrian Lebanese MP and Christian Maronite killed in a powerful bomb blast along with four others.
The First Lady talks about her rare bit of international political activism
Severe floods have destroyed more than a tenth of North Korea's farmland at the height of the growing season, official media said Wednesday
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told President Bush on Tuesday the United Nations is speeding up efforts to find a political solution to the four-year conflict in Darfur that has killed more than 200,000 people
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon ducked in surprise when an explosion rattled Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday where he was delivering a televised news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The U.N. General Assembly has appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to serve as the United Nations' next secretary-general from January 1.
A U.S. Congressional team sent to the Korean peninsula says Pyongyang is ready to rejoin six-party talks on its secretive nuclear program.
North and South Korea have agreed to set up a military hotline in a step towards easing tensions along their heavily fortified border.
Next week's six-party talks in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear weapons program are likely to have a "positive outcome", according to South Korea's foreign minister Ban Ki-moon.
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