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President Barack Obama's November 17 meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao ahead of December's UN Climate Change Conference drove an increased worldwide interest in environmental topics, according to the Nielsen Company's...
The crew of the Spanish tuna trawler freed by Somali pirates are back home after their seven week ordeal. The 36 sailors spoke of their fear while held captive by volatile and heavily-armed Somali hijackers. Its reported the...
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says that the UN's Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Serge Brammertz did not say that Mladic is out of Serbia's reach as media reported. According to Tanjug news agency, Vukcevic said...
NAIROBI, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The UN children's fund UNICEF is urging stepped-up response to humanitarian crisis facing Somalia, saying it was running out for children in the Horn of Africa nation. UNICEF Deputy Executive...
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The first two Norwegians to die of swine flu were carrying a mutated version of the H1N1 virus, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said Friday. The World Health Organization in Geneva said...
BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- A total of 927 media organizations from 83 countries and areas have joined the 24-hour global campaign to promote children's rights, which ended Saturday. The campaign, also called the "Global News...
Sri Lankan war-displaced civilians peer from behind barbed wire fences surrounding their internment camp in Vavuniya More than 300,000 displaced by fighting were placed in internment camp Remaining 130,000 will be free to leave...
KIGALI (Reuters) - Survivor groups from Rwanda's 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the U.N. tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court's recent acquittals of two genocide suspects.
By Alejandra del Palacio MEXICO CITY, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Many Latin American countries on Friday launched different political, cultural, sports and entertainment activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the...
BEIRUT (AFP) – The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned
