COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after facing pressure to speed up resettlement of thousands of Tamils displaced by war. The government's announcement ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s government need to focus onincreasing its long-term growth potential because the publicdebt burden leaves little room for further stimulus spending,the Organization for Economic Cooperation said. “Additional fiscal stimulus is not warranted given theexpected pickup in output ...Read More
The militant Hezbollah group says that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the group's leader for a sixth term. A Hezbollah statement Thursday did not say when top Hezbollah officials voted to re-elect Nasrallah as the guerrilla group's secretary-general. The statement ...Read More
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every five seconds -- even though the planet has more than enough food for all.
Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, laid out the sobering statistic as he kicked ...Read More
UNITED NATIONS—Confident that governments will reach a climate change deal next month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to Washington Tuesday to ensure that the United States is on board. Ban plans to meet with key senators and White House officials ...Read More
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Iraqi lawmakers for passing a key election law in time for a January parliamentary election. Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday reached a compromise on amendments to a national election law that ...Read More
JAKARTA, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Association of the Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) said on Monday that economic integration between its members is well on track. "By Jan. 1, 2010, we will eliminate our tariffs gradually. The effective implementation of this ...Read More
Mr Goldstone called on both sides to carry out investigations
Israel has rejected a UN resolution calling on it to independently investigate suspected war crimes during its military offensive in Gaza.
An Israeli foreign ministry statement called the UN endorsement "completely ...Read More
United Nations (CNN) -- The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution endorsing a U.N. report calling for both Israel and Palestine to carry out independent investigations of possible war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip during last winter's conflict.
The ...Read More
Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League says he is positive that the current negotiations on Iran's nuclear program will eventually yield proper answers.
"I am optimistic as to the dialogue that is going on," Moussa told reporters after ...Read More
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