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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Child deaths from pneumonia and severe diarrhoea, mainly among the poor in Africa and South Asia, could be virtually eliminated by 2025 under an "integrated" strategy that includes better sanitation and newer vaccines, U.N. agencies said on Friday. The...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Sudan activists on Thursday called for the United States and the international community to intervene in a region of Sudan inaccessible to outsiders after a U.S. group released satellite photos of what they said appear to be mass graves. Details about mass graves, aerial...

(CNN) -- After an eventful first term marked by humanitarian crises, a global recession and the Arab Spring, Ban Ki-moon announced Monday his intention to seek a second five-year stint as the United Nations' secretary-general. Ban voiced his hope of staying in place at a news conference Monday...

CNN) -- Sudan's military has taken control of the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, the country's foreign ministry said Sunday. A spokesman for the military wing of the movement that governs Southern Sudan confirmed that Sudan's military controlled the area. "Abyei has been under attack by...

-- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged embattled leaders in the Middle East and North Africa to listen to the wishes of their own people, as civil unrest spreads across the region. Thousands of people took to the streets of Cairo on Friday to call for an end to Egyptian President Hosni...

Ivory Coast has been in a political crisis since Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to step down. -- The U.N. Security Council is expected to authorize another 2,000 troops for its peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast on Tuesday amid a standoff between the mission and supporters of self-proclaimed...

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon speaks to reporters during a press conference on November 20, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the situation in the Ivory Coast is increasingly volatile and the country risks a return to civil war. The West African...

The United Nations has said it will keep its peacekeepers in Ivory Coast despite a directive ordering them out from the west African nation's disputed president, Laurent Gbagbo. The U.N. security council joined several other world bodies in calling for Gbagbo to step dow after a contested...

Nigerian authorities said Friday they had seized 130 kilograms (286 pounds) of high-grade heroin in a shipment that originated in Iran. The drugs were hidden inside auto parts and were discovered because of intelligence reports from foreign collaborators, the National Drug Law Enforcement...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/26/newton.haiti.dangerous.waters.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2010/10/28/nr.gupta.haiti.cholera.outbreak.cnn The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti has risen to more than 330, and officials believe Hurricane Tomas may worsen the...

United Nations -- Thirty Congolese women on the border of Angola and Congo were held in a dungeonlike prison and systematically raped by uniformed men, according to U.N. officials. The Congolese women were part of a group of 150 people who had recently been expelled from Angola. The United...

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Armed militants clad in suicide vests were killed Saturday after they attacked the U.N. compound in the western Afghan city of Herat, local governor's spokesman said. "We believe that three or four of the attackers who were killed were prepared with suicide vests,"...

Jolie pitches for more aid to Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, -- U.S. actress and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie called on the public to step up its financial support for Pakistani flood victims. "This is not just a humanitarian crisis, it is an economic and social catastrophe,"...

U.N. extends Iraq mission to next year UNITED NATIONS, The U.N. mission in Iraq was given another year to do its work in a unanimous vote Thursday by the Security Council. The council followed the recommendations in a report by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the mission should be...

Israel to participate in flotilla probe JERUSALEM, Israel has decided to participate in a U.N. probe of an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound boat in May in which nine Turkish activists were killed. On Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and six ministers decided to accept U.N...

U.N. names 2 more heritage sites UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (UPI) -- A U.N. agency Saturday added Sri Lanka's Central Highlands and Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea islands and atolls to the World Heritage List. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said in a release issued in New...

Civilians uprooted by new Congo violence NEW YORK, Fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has uprooted almost 90,000 civilians from their homes in the east of the country, the United Nations says. Clashes between the national army and the Ugandan rebel group known as the Allied...

Bombing figure added to U.N. terror list WASHINGTON, A member of al-Qaida hiding in Yemen has been added to a U.N. list that requires member nations to freeze assets and institute a travel ban, U.S. officials say. Anwar al-Aulaqi, an operative of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was involved...

U.N. $5 billion short of relief needs UNITED NATIONS, U.N. agencies and affiliates are coming up nearly $5 billion short this year for humanitarian relief efforts worldwide, an official said Wednesday in New York. The international organization said in a release less than half of the $9.5...

U.N: Food security challenges Asia-Pacific MANILA, Philippines, (UPI) -- More could be done to address growing food insecurity in the Asia-Pacific region but trends are reversing, U.N. officials told delegates in the Philippines. Jacques Diouf, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture...