Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2177 world United Nations en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:31:27 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2177 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/wl_nm/us_myanmar_un nm/20090703/us_myanmar_un Reuters world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:31:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/wl_nm/us_myanmar_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r1296826656.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=1pV3IJnv2d7DYJXLV5vWgA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a joint news conference with Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso at the latter's official residence in Tokyo July 1, 2009. Ban has a rare meeting with Myanmar's top general on Friday where he will urge the secretive leader to free all political prisoners and ensure next year's elections are credible. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has a rare meeting with Myanmar's top general on Friday where he will urge the secretive leader to free all political prisoners and ensure next year's elections are credible.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/wl_nm/us_myanmar_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r1296826656.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=1pV3IJnv2d7DYJXLV5vWgA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a joint news conference with Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso at the latter's official residence in Tokyo July 1, 2009. Ban has a rare meeting with Myanmar's top general on Friday where he will urge the secretive leader to free all political prisoners and ensure next year's elections are credible. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_eu/eu_un_nuclear_agency_new_head ap/20090702/eu_un_nuclear_agency_new_head AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:12:26 GMT AP - The world's top nuclear watchdog chose Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next head on Thursday — and he touched on the devastation U.S. atom bombs wreaked on his country in pledging to do his utmost to prevent the spread of nuclear arms. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_eu/un_who_swine_flu ap/20090701/un_who_swine_flu AP world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:45:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_eu/un_who_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246570641920-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=muIm08EdMZCwmvRPSvRNIA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). The World Health Organization on Thursday vowed poor countries in the Americas would receive enough antivirals to combat the swine flu outbreak, amid fresh concern over the epidemic's spread.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)" border="0" /></a>AP - The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is working to mathematically model the spread of swine flu in an attempt to better understand how the outbreak developed from a handful of cases to a global epidemic in less than two months.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_eu/un_who_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246570641920-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=muIm08EdMZCwmvRPSvRNIA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="photo" title="Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). The World Health Organization on Thursday vowed poor countries in the Americas would receive enough antivirals to combat the swine flu outbreak, amid fresh concern over the epidemic's spread.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_land_mines ap/20090701/ml_iraq_land_mines AP world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:43:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_land_mines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.0048d783dda1454d8ab98e49a0cd3441.iraq_mines_bag102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vSN1SMDRwNr.Z.q5SW313Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="From left to right: Lt. Gen. Ahmed Hashim, representative of Iraq's ministry of Defense, Kent Paulusson, United Nation Development Fund's senior mine action adviser, and Arnold Glmer, special representative of the General Secretary of the UN. presents the report on the steps taken by Iraq to clear land-mines and unexploded bombs at a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Iraq's failure to take any steps to clear land-mines and unexploded bombs will derail any chance of its ever meeting an international deadline to clean up what is considered one of the world's most contaminated countries, two United Nations agencies said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Iraqi government's failure to grasp the scope of its land mine and bomb problem has derailed efforts to clear what is considered one of the world's most contaminated countries, two United Nations agencies said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_land_mines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.0048d783dda1454d8ab98e49a0cd3441.iraq_mines_bag102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vSN1SMDRwNr.Z.q5SW313Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="From left to right: Lt. Gen. Ahmed Hashim, representative of Iraq's ministry of Defense, Kent Paulusson, United Nation Development Fund's senior mine action adviser, and Arnold Glmer, special representative of the General Secretary of the UN. presents the report on the steps taken by Iraq to clear land-mines and unexploded bombs at a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Iraq's failure to take any steps to clear land-mines and unexploded bombs will derail any chance of its ever meeting an international deadline to clean up what is considered one of the world's most contaminated countries, two United Nations agencies said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweapons afp/20090701/nkoreanuclearweapons AFP world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:55:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweapons"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246459599632-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=Ux2t5rqSp1EvWnmKYlxTzg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="UN chief Ban Ki-moon (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso attend a joint press conference in Tokyo. Ban said that he was determined to achieve a nuclear-free North Korea amid tension over new UN sanctions on the isolated communist regime.(AFP/POOL/File/Yuriko Nakao)" border="0" /></a>AFP - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he was determined to achieve a nuclear-free North Korea amid tension over new UN sanctions against the isolated communist regime.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweapons"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246459599632-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=Ux2t5rqSp1EvWnmKYlxTzg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="UN chief Ban Ki-moon (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso attend a joint press conference in Tokyo. Ban said that he was determined to achieve a nuclear-free North Korea amid tension over new UN sanctions on the isolated communist regime.(AFP/POOL/File/Yuriko Nakao)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_un_palestinians ap/20090701/un_un_palestinians AP world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:18:58 GMT AP - The blockade of Gaza is causing severe humanitarian hardship and the situation is getting worse every day, the head of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_un_bhutto ap/20090701/as_pakistan_un_bhutto AP world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:45:36 GMT AP - The United Nations formally began a six-month investigation Wednesday into the slaying of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a process that the government hopes will lead to her killers being brought to justice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_pakistan_bhutto_un nm/20090701/us_pakistan_bhutto_un Reuters world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:32:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_pakistan_bhutto_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r652292150.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=Xgfa_TwKZEwsZt6Vj_9srQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Supporters hold candles next to a portrait of slain former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto during a prayer ceremony on her first death anniversary in Lahore December 27, 2008. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A U.N. fact-finding commission began an inquiry on Wednesday into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_pakistan_bhutto_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/r652292150.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=Xgfa_TwKZEwsZt6Vj_9srQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="Supporters hold candles next to a portrait of slain former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto during a prayer ceremony on her first death anniversary in Lahore December 27, 2008. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/pl_afp/usdiplomacyunnkoreaweaponsnuclear afp/20090701/usdiplomacyunnkoreaweaponsnuclear AFP politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:24:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/pl_afp/usdiplomacyunnkoreaweaponsnuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246231654957-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.uhh0QhYes4PNd4zl2kmoQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="New UN sanctions intended to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program will have an "impact" when they take full force, US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, pictured, has said(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Mcgrath)" border="0" /></a>AFP - New UN sanctions intended to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program will have an "impact" when they take full force, the top US envoy to the United Nations has said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/pl_afp/usdiplomacyunnkoreaweaponsnuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246231654957-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.uhh0QhYes4PNd4zl2kmoQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="New UN sanctions intended to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program will have an "impact" when they take full force, US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, pictured, has said(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Mcgrath)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_eu/un_med_who_tb_vaccine ap/20090701/un_med_who_tb_vaccine AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:40:56 GMT AP - The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/un_un_honduras ap/20090701/un_un_honduras AP us Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:16:09 GMT AP - The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously condemned the military coup in Honduras and demanded President Manuel Zelaya's immediate return to power, a decision the ousted Honduran leader called "historic." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/un_apnewsalert ap/20090630/un_apnewsalert AP us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:02:36 GMT AP - UN General Assembly condemns military coup in Honduras, demands president's return to power. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/wl_nm/us_georgia_monitors nm/20090630/us_georgia_monitors Reuters world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/wl_nm/us_georgia_monitors"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090630/i/r1729194421.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=7hnZdgGo62nrYvpGoq08SQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="An UN soldier takes picture in his armoured vehicle parked on the roadside as a Russian military convoy travels on its way on a main road leading to the Georgian city of Zugdidi, which is about 350 km (220 miles) away from Georgia's capital Tbilisi, August 13, 2008. REUTERS/Umit Bektas" border="0" /></a>Reuters - United Nations monitors began pulling out of Georgia on Tuesday and the OSCE officially closed its observer mission, testing security almost a year since the former Soviet republic's war with Russia.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/wl_nm/us_georgia_monitors"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090630/i/r1729194421.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=7hnZdgGo62nrYvpGoq08SQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="An UN soldier takes picture in his armoured vehicle parked on the roadside as a Russian military convoy travels on its way on a main road leading to the Georgian city of Zugdidi, which is about 350 km (220 miles) away from Georgia's capital Tbilisi, August 13, 2008. REUTERS/Umit Bektas" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090630/ts_csm/aawkward csm/20090630/aawkward The Christian Science Monitor topstories Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - When ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya takes his case for reinstatement to the United Nations General Assembly today, he'll do so at the invitation of the assembly's president – a Marxist Nicaraguan priest who has used his international platform to berate the United States and other powers over the world's prevailing economic order. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/un_un_peacekeeping ap/20090630/un_un_peacekeeping AP us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:41:00 GMT AP - The United States is prepared to provide more military observers, police and civilian staff to beef up the U.N.'s far-flung peacekeeping operations, the U.S. ambassador said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/un_un_honduras_visit ap/20090629/un_un_honduras_visit AP us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:03:27 GMT AP - The ousted president of Honduras will address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/un_un_myanmar_visit ap/20090629/un_un_myanmar_visit AP us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:15:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/un_un_myanmar_visit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090626/capt.898843b4c70b40d88dc77be79c0ced62.myanmar_un_myn101.jpg?x=130&y=69&q=85&sig=73cDqL_VOW9LrwZts1afOw--" align="left" height="69" width="130" alt="Pedestrians walk past police convoy stationed near Insein Prison where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being detained Friday, June 26, 2009. UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari was en route to Naypyitaw by road shortly after his arrival in Yangon on June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Khin Maug Win)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will return to Myanmar later this week on a diplomatic bid to win the release of Aung San Suu Kyi just as the imprisoned pro-democracy leader's trial resumes, U.N. officials announced Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/un_un_myanmar_visit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090626/capt.898843b4c70b40d88dc77be79c0ced62.myanmar_un_myn101.jpg?x=130&y=69&q=85&sig=73cDqL_VOW9LrwZts1afOw--" align="left" height="69" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pedestrians walk past police convoy stationed near Insein Prison where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being detained Friday, June 26, 2009. UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari was en route to Naypyitaw by road shortly after his arrival in Yangon on June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Khin Maug Win)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_nkorea ap/20090628/us_us_nkorea AP politics Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:53:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_nkorea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246533614128-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=yaRlxa3pt95Jt8irHlnfjg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Map locating the South Korea-funded Kaesong industrial complex inside North Korea. North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korean military officials said, further fuelling tension sparked by its nuclear standoff with the international community.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0" /></a>AP - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S. is keeping close tabs on a suspected North Korea arms ship.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090628/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_nkorea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246533614128-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=yaRlxa3pt95Jt8irHlnfjg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Map locating the South Korea-funded Kaesong industrial complex inside North Korea. North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korean military officials said, further fuelling tension sparked by its nuclear standoff with the international community.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090628/ts_afp/unescoheritage afp/20090628/unescoheritage AFP topstories Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:30:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090628/ts_afp/unescoheritage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1246156066954-2-0.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=.Q4yYrN21KeqU8bmaJxNYw--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Tower of Hercules in Coruna, northwestern Spain. The tower is an ancient Roman lighthouse and the oldest lighthouse in the world still in use. It has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List, announced on June 27.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)" border="0" /></a>AFP - UNESCO has added a number of European sites to its World Heritage List, including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal in Wales, a Spanish lighthouse, and two Swiss watch manufacturing towns.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090628/ts_afp/unescoheritage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1246156066954-2-0.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=.Q4yYrN21KeqU8bmaJxNYw--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="Tower of Hercules in Coruna, northwestern Spain. The tower is an ancient Roman lighthouse and the oldest lighthouse in the world still in use. It has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List, announced on June 27.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/ts_afp/unescoheritagebelizecolombia afp/20090627/unescoheritagebelizecolombia AFP topstories Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:24:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/ts_afp/unescoheritagebelizecolombia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1246156066954-2-0.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=.Q4yYrN21KeqU8bmaJxNYw--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Tower of Hercules in Coruna, northwestern Spain. The tower is an ancient Roman lighthouse and the oldest lighthouse in the world still in use. It has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List, announced on June 27.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)" border="0" /></a>AFP - UNESCO has put two natural sites, a coral reef in Belize and a national park in Colombia, on its list of endangered world heritage, a statement issued Saturday said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090627/ts_afp/unescoheritagebelizecolombia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1246156066954-2-0.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=.Q4yYrN21KeqU8bmaJxNYw--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="Tower of Hercules in Coruna, northwestern Spain. The tower is an ancient Roman lighthouse and the oldest lighthouse in the world still in use. It has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List, announced on June 27.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)