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Collection of un agencies news, found 91 news.

North Korea's first lady displays Dior-style handbag

North Korea's young first lady has been pictured sporting what appears to be a Christian Dior handbag, in stark ...

Cuba rejects US accusation of sponsoring terrorism

Cuba rejected the accusations of US State Department that the Caribbean nation sponsors terrorism, the official daily ...

Violence in Myanmar not linked to persecution: Myanmar govt

Myanmar government has stated that the current riots in Rakhine state are not linked to the persecution of any ...

Delta Summit ends with "Jakarta Delta Message"

A three-day Delta Summit ended here Friday with the adoption of a "Jakarta Delta Message" that stresses the need to ...

Indonesia hails provisional inclusion of komodo in new7wonders

After high-profile efforts to mobilize the Indonesian people`s support and despite a controversy over its ...

RI disagrees with US on Palestine`s UNESCO membership

Palestine`s bid for UNESCO membership is in accordance with the vision of a two-state solution and therefore Indonesia ...

Deadly suicide bomb rocks UN building in Nigerian capital

A suicide bomb blast rocked the UN compound in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, killing at least 18 people, ...

Solo meeting raises idea of sustainable development council

The high level dialog on sustainable development in Solo, Central Java, has floated the idea of establishing a ...

Solo meeting prelude to Rio +20 confab

The summit on sustainable development (HLD IFSD), otherwise also known as the "Solo Meeting," is being held in ...

38,000 internally displaced persons in Pakistan return homes: UN

The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday that 38,000 people, who had been displaced as the result of fighting ...

Young women, adolescent girls face high risk of HIV infection

A new report titled, " Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV" from early adolescence to young adulthood, indicates ...

President Yudhoyono, UNDP chief discuss food resilience

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono discussed global issues, including the food and energy crises with the ...

172,000 have fled across Libya border: UN

More than 172,000 people have crossed Libya`s borders into Tunisia and Egypt in the past week, said a top UN official ...

Britain halts aid to Russia, China, UN agencies

Britain on Tuesday slashed 16 countries including Russia and China from the list of nations it gives financial aid to ...

UN flying staff, families out of Egypt to Cyprus

Around 600 United Nations staff and their families are to be airlifted to Cyprus on Thursday as the security situation ...