UN agency convenes special meeting to examine turmoil in wheat markets United Nations | Food prices up on wheat price rise3 September 2010 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will hold a special meeting later this month to examine the recent spike in wheat prices and help avoid any repeat of the recent global food crisis. | The meeting, slated for 24 Septembe...
UN to hold crisis talks on food prices as riots hit Mozambique The Guardian | After violence in Africa and protests in Egypt, Serbia and Pakistan, the UN are to urge action on the rising cost of food Resident queue for bread in the streets of Mozambique's capital, Maputo. Photograph: Grant Neuenberg/REUTERS | The UN has called an urgent meeting on rising global food prices ...
Daily news roundup from the United Nations - 3 September 2010 The Examiner | UN mission opens first base ahead of referendum in southern Sudan | The United Nations peacekeeping mission set up after the end of the north-south civil war has opened its first field office for the referendum to be held next January on whether th...
UN agency calls emergency summit over soaring global food prices The Independent | A United Nations agency has called a special meeting to discuss the recent spike in food prices, responding to fears of a repeat of the shortages that led to riots in parts of the world two years ago. | The announcement by the Rome-based UN Food an...
UN nuclear chief asks Israel to join treaty The Guardian | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Associated Press Writer= VIENNA (AP) — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, according to a report made public Friday, in a boost to A...
UN official: BlackBerry data requests legitimate Daily Star Lebanon | Chief of telecom agency says private sector must work with governments | Friday, September 03, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | LONDON: The chief of the UN’s telecommunications ...
UN to release Congo 'genocide' report in October Houston Chronicle | GENEVA - A report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period won't be released until October, the U.N.'s top human rights official sa...
Floods worsen misery for hunger-stricken Niger - UN United Nations | The Diffa-N'Guigmi road in Niger becomes nearly impassable during the rainy season3 September 2010 – Already stricken by a severe food crisis brought on by a prolonged drought, the people of Niger have now to contend with floods which have affected...
UN agency convenes special meeting to examine turmoil in wheat markets United Nations | Food prices up on wheat price rise3 September 2010 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will hold a special meeting later this month to examine the recent spike in wheat prices and help avoid any repeat of the recent global ...
US rights group urges UN chief to secure release of Iranian women's rights activist KDVR UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S. human rights group urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to secure the release of a prominent Iranian journalist and activist who goes on trial Saturday on charges that carry the death penalty. | It said Shiva Na...
Gilad Atzmon: The Lowest Of The Low WorldNews.com Millions of ballot papers have been sent out yesterday to those eligible to vote in the Labour leadership election. Symbolically enough, this happened the day Tony Blair, the British PM who launched the criminal war in Iraq, published his controversial memoirs. | I am not holding my breath for the Labour party to make the right decision. Clearly, t...
Obama facing another failed foreign policy initiative as Iran announces uranium enrichment facility The Examiner | Ground Zero Mosque Is Okay According To The President, But Then Again A Nuclear Armed Iran Seems To Be Fine As Well. | The Cordoba House mosque was fine with the President until it wasn't anymore, after what for the administration must have been a surprisingly swift and vocal backlash to his statements at the dinner celebrating Ramadan at the Whi...
