March 10, 2010 | In: World News
It was an unseasonably warm morning in New York but a dark cloud hung over the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday as friends and family gathered to pay tribute to the 101 UN staffers who perished in Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. "Today we...
March 10, 2010 | In: World News
United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon will visit Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza strip later this month, UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky said on Tuesday. Nesirky did not give an exact date but Ban told reporters on Monday that the trip would...
March 10, 2010 | In: World News
United Nations staff and family members of the 101 personnel who perished in the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake gathered at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday for a ceremony to honor the victims and to commemorate the single greatest loss the world body...
March 10, 2010 | In: World News
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday lashed out at the Israeli approval of plans for the building of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, reiterating that "settlements are illegal under international law." A statement, issued here by Ban's...
March 10, 2010 | In: World News
Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami has been barred from leaving the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. "Executive Secretary of Tehran's Vo'az (preachers) Community Hojjatoleslam Abbas Amirifar announced...
March 10, 2010 | In: World News
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is the most prominent candidate to lead the Palestinian team in indirect negotiations with Israel, an official said Tuesday. Erekat, the head of the negotiations department at Palestine Liberation Organization...
