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UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid

Yahoo! News : Science [US] (< 1 hour)
AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief.

DR Congo 'genocide' file delayed

BBC : Africa [UK] (< 1 hour)
The UN postpones the release of a draft report that accuses the Rwandan army of possible genocide in DR Congo till next month.

Terror groups 'exploiting Pakistan flood crisis'

EU Politics News [UK] (< 1 hour)
The international community must do more to support recovery efforts in Pakistan or risk is terror groups exploiting the situation, Unicef's south Asia regional director has warned

EU presses China on observing Iran sanctions

Iran Focus [UK] (< 1 hour)
Reuters: The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Thursday she had pressed China to ensure that Chinese companies did not fill the void left by other firms leaving Iran due to U.N. sanctions.

India, Pak request UN to appoint umpires

Greater Kashmir [IN] (< 1 hour)
New Delhi, Sept 2: India and Pakistan have written to the United Nations and other prominent international bodies to name neutral umpires for efforts to settle their dispute over Jammu and Kashmir-based Kishenganga hydel project.Representatives of ...

Flood causes 1,710 death, 43 bln dollar loss in Pakistan

People’s Daily : World [CN] (1 hour)
But these figures are inconsistent with those issued by other organizations working in the flood-hit areas as United Nations agencies and Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority estimated that crops of 0.56 million hectares had been washed ...

Humanitarian Efforts Better Organized And Funded

Scoop NZ: World [NZ] (1 hour)
The way the UN responds to natural and man-made emergencies has improved greatly, says the world body’s outgoing humanitarian chief, while acknowledging that efforts to alleviate the plight of those affected by crises can be improved further.

UN Agency Helps Stave Off Hunger In Bolivia

Scoop NZ: World [NZ] (1 hour)
The United Nations food aid agency has stepped in to help in southern Bolivia’s El Chaco region, where a long dry spell has decimated maize harvests, threatening an entire culture of indigenous corn growers with destitution.

More on the UN | Michael Tomasky

Guardian Newspaper : World [UK] (2 hours)
Stupid me, I should have remember to go to undispatch.com and check their archives on this. As usual, the intrepid Mark Leon Goldberg has been on the story of the Human Rights Council and the universal periodic reviews.In the comment thread to my ...

Opposition to go after foreign minister

B92 [YU] (4 hours)
Several opposition parties say that if the Serbian draft Kosovo resolution sent to the UN failed, it is FM Vuk Jeremi who should resign. Belgrade daily Veernje Novosti writes today that the opposition agrees on this, but cannot see eye to eye on who ...
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