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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2177 world United Nations en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:34 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/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_iran_rights ap/20091120/un_un_iran_rights AP us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:34 GMT AP - A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_iran_rights_un nm/20091120/us_iran_rights_un Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:48:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_iran_rights_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r3168844915.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=FYpsYLEpgXtRyQcDUu.sSA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="A man with a cane gestures towards a woman on the ground during protests in central Tehran June 14, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_iran_rights_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r3168844915.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=FYpsYLEpgXtRyQcDUu.sSA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man with a cane gestures towards a woman on the ground during protests in central Tehran June 14, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_eu/un_who_norway_flu_mutation ap/20091120/un_who_norway_flu_mutation AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:26:11 GMT AP - The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_as/world_s_children_vignettes ap/20091120/world_s_children_vignettes AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:23:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_as/world_s_children_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.4b38a8acc3b144c1ad5e7e8080590489.worlds_children_vignettes__ny382.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=qaxKb0f7VHkouwiiayn9dw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Leonardo Sanchez, 12, holding a market sign that reads in Spanish 'take advantage,' as he works with family members in the La Merced market in Mexico City. The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago, yet millions of children the world over still suffer from violence and abuse, hunger and disease. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0" /></a>AP - EDITOR'S NOTE &mdash; The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents around the globe interviewed children who illustrate the remaining challenges, along with some victories.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_as/world_s_children_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.4b38a8acc3b144c1ad5e7e8080590489.worlds_children_vignettes__ny382.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=qaxKb0f7VHkouwiiayn9dw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Leonardo Sanchez, 12, holding a market sign that reads in Spanish 'take advantage,' as he works with family members in the La Merced market in Mexico City. The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago, yet millions of children the world over still suffer from violence and abuse, hunger and disease. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_north_korea_rights ap/20091120/un_un_north_korea_rights AP us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:27:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_north_korea_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.c8a49b65d5ac4394a196e1d4aca8dd02.south_korea_un_north_korea_rights_sel102.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=iq_2M7dlgogFzRDUvFTNKA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="A South Korean child watches a television program reporting North Korean prisoners at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A key U.N. committee expressed 'very serious concern' Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations. The letters on the screen read ' North Korea will be the only country that kills people like it kills dogs or pigs without holding trials.' (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0" /></a>AP - A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_north_korea_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.c8a49b65d5ac4394a196e1d4aca8dd02.south_korea_un_north_korea_rights_sel102.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=iq_2M7dlgogFzRDUvFTNKA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="photo" title="A South Korean child watches a television program reporting North Korean prisoners at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A key U.N. committee expressed 'very serious concern' Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations. The letters on the screen read ' North Korea will be the only country that kills people like it kills dogs or pigs without holding trials.' (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_rights_un nm/20091120/us_rights_un Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:05:10 GMT Reuters - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_banning_blasphemy ap/20091119/un_banning_blasphemy AP us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_banning_blasphemy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.208a97aea7834d40a60795cce9ec7b98.banning_blasphemy_ny124.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=ld8DmiFQiFIwIqaVHILD.w--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Thursday, March 20, 2008 file photo, Pakistani protesters rally against the republishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers in Quetta, Pakistan. Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery &mdash; essentially, a ban on blasphemy. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery &mdash; essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_banning_blasphemy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.208a97aea7834d40a60795cce9ec7b98.banning_blasphemy_ny124.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=ld8DmiFQiFIwIqaVHILD.w--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Thursday, March 20, 2008 file photo, Pakistani protesters rally against the republishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers in Quetta, Pakistan. Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery &mdash; essentially, a ban on blasphemy. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_world_s_children ap/20091119/un_world_s_children AP us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:44:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_world_s_children"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.7c1a57554f8e457fae777549d2378287.un_children_rights__nybm104.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=zDegrDEQCKXDSFKNQhu47g--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Grace Akallo, 29, left, a former child soldier in Uganda, actress and ambassador for UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency Lucy Liu, center, and Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director, pose after a news conference in New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. UNICEF issued a special edition of its annual report on The State of the World's Children on the eve of Friday's 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to spotlight the treaty's achievements and challenges. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)" border="0" /></a>AP - UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care &mdash; and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence &mdash; two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_world_s_children"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.7c1a57554f8e457fae777549d2378287.un_children_rights__nybm104.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=zDegrDEQCKXDSFKNQhu47g--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="photo" title="Grace Akallo, 29, left, a former child soldier in Uganda, actress and ambassador for UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency Lucy Liu, center, and Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director, pose after a news conference in New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. UNICEF issued a special edition of its annual report on The State of the World's Children on the eve of Friday's 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to spotlight the treaty's achievements and challenges. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_un_climate_pact ap/20091119/un_un_climate_pact AP us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_un_climate_pact"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091116/capt.936abb5e6eaa4941a452debd5f93d5ad.denmark_climate_summit_cop805.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=CyoKcaBlGAUPrSDz4FS7Ig--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, right, with Head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Yvo de Boer, at the start of a two-day closed meeting of climate negotiators from nearly 40 countries who are preparing for the Copenhagen U.N. summit that starts on Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Denmark's climate minister says next month's summit on climate change in Copenhagen must set a deadline for a legally binding document. (AP Photo/POLFOTO/Tariq Mikkel Khan)" border="0" /></a>AP - The U.N. climate chief has a message for naysayers about the Copenhagen climate conference next month: It will succeed.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/un_un_climate_pact"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091116/capt.936abb5e6eaa4941a452debd5f93d5ad.denmark_climate_summit_cop805.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=CyoKcaBlGAUPrSDz4FS7Ig--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, right, with Head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Yvo de Boer, at the start of a two-day closed meeting of climate negotiators from nearly 40 countries who are preparing for the Copenhagen U.N. summit that starts on Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Denmark's climate minister says next month's summit on climate change in Copenhagen must set a deadline for a legally binding document. (AP Photo/POLFOTO/Tariq Mikkel Khan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_children_un nm/20091119/us_afghanistan_children_un Reuters world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:08:22 GMT Reuters - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaununrestpeoplerefugeesholmes afp/20091119/srilankaununrestpeoplerefugeesholmes AFP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:50:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaununrestpeoplerefugeesholmes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258645401328-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=zddi4g31yKNlFt.UV5SMpw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="UN humanitarian chief John Holmes addresses a press conference in Colombo on November 19. The United Nations on Thursday stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka to free thousands of war-displaced civilians held in state-run internment camps.(AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United Nations on Thursday stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka to free thousands of war-displaced civilians held in state-run internment camps.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaununrestpeoplerefugeesholmes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258645401328-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=zddi4g31yKNlFt.UV5SMpw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="UN humanitarian chief John Holmes addresses a press conference in Colombo on November 19. The United Nations on Thursday stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka to free thousands of war-displaced civilians held in state-run internment camps.(AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_korea_north_un nm/20091118/us_korea_north_un Reuters world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:22:39 GMT Reuters - North Korea appears to be taking elaborate measures to evade U.N. sanctions aimed at its nuclear and missile activities, arms trading and import of luxuries, U.N. experts say in a new report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_toilets nm/20091118/us_toilets Reuters world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:34:45 GMT Reuters - People held in jails and other detention centres around the world frequently have no access to clean toilets; a violation of their basic human rights, three United Nations investigators said Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/un_un_somalia_piracy ap/20091118/un_un_somalia_piracy AP us Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:42:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/un_un_somalia_piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258751994930-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=8k6Sy.ujPiWUyN.VOmhKDw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="An undated handout photo provided in October 2009 by the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) shows the Lynn Rival yacht, belonging to British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler sailing in the Indian Ocean. A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video telecast Friday that their captors are "losing patience" and could kill them "within a week" if no ransom is paid.(AFP/EU NAVFOR/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The United States is calling for intensified efforts to combat piracy and warning against paying ransom.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/un_un_somalia_piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258751994930-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=8k6Sy.ujPiWUyN.VOmhKDw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="An undated handout photo provided in October 2009 by the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) shows the Lynn Rival yacht, belonging to British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler sailing in the Indian Ocean. A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video telecast Friday that their captors are "losing patience" and could kill them "within a week" if no ransom is paid.(AFP/EU NAVFOR/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_iran_us_hikers ap/20091118/us_iran_us_hikers AP us Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_iran_us_hikers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091116/i/ra536396038.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=jvq7EvGNLyk99DkUL0Y9SA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Missing American hiker Sarah Shourd is seen here in this undated photo released by freethehikers.org, August 20, 2009. REUTERS/freethehikers.org/Handout/Files" border="0" /></a>AP - The families of three American hikers detained in Iran have filed a petition with the Iranian mission to the United Nations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_iran_us_hikers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091116/i/ra536396038.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=jvq7EvGNLyk99DkUL0Y9SA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Missing American hiker Sarah Shourd is seen here in this undated photo released by freethehikers.org, August 20, 2009. REUTERS/freethehikers.org/Handout/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_un_food_summit ap/20091118/eu_un_food_summit AP world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_un_food_summit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.c7e9dd53094b47e1867e455da46d449f.italy_un_food_summit_ppc104.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=4fRI9w9v0HyMZ3AsssIpAg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations answers journalists' questions during a press conference at the end of a World Summit on Food Security at the FAO headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_un_food_summit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.c7e9dd53094b47e1867e455da46d449f.italy_un_food_summit_ppc104.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=4fRI9w9v0HyMZ3AsssIpAg--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations answers journalists' questions during a press conference at the end of a World Summit on Food Security at the FAO headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwestdisplaced afp/20091118/pakistanunrestnorthwestdisplaced AFP world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:37:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwestdisplaced"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258552994375-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=2vxLxqBv_0WSngMLn99eNQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Pakistani internally displaced tribesmen outside a distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan in October 2009. More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan's latest military offensive against Taliban insurgents in the tribal South Waziristan region, the United Nations said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)" border="0" /></a>AFP - More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan's latest military offensive against Taliban insurgents in the tribal South Waziristan region, the United Nations said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwestdisplaced"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258552994375-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=2vxLxqBv_0WSngMLn99eNQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pakistani internally displaced tribesmen outside a distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan in October 2009. More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan's latest military offensive against Taliban insurgents in the tribal South Waziristan region, the United Nations said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_asia_afp/philippinesfloodtyphoonunaid afp/20091118/philippinesfloodtyphoonunaid AFP world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:41:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_asia_afp/philippinesfloodtyphoonunaid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258530054312-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=uRASV.GPJi6IBN7eDepabQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Survivors from recent floods in the Philippines queue for drinking water in the slums of Bagong Silangan near Manila. The United Nations has nearly doubled its appeal for funds to help the country cope with the effects of back-to-back storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million homeless.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United Nations on Wednesday nearly doubled its appeal for funds to help the Philippines cope with the effects of back-to-back storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million homeless.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_asia_afp/philippinesfloodtyphoonunaid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258530054312-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=uRASV.GPJi6IBN7eDepabQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Survivors from recent floods in the Philippines queue for drinking water in the slums of Bagong Silangan near Manila. The United Nations has nearly doubled its appeal for funds to help the country cope with the effects of back-to-back storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million homeless.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_asia_afp/pakistanpoliticsbhuttoun afp/20091118/pakistanpoliticsbhuttoun AFP world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:40:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_asia_afp/pakistanpoliticsbhuttoun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258524676046-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=uNW9bBX9ez3oBgI2jeKuvg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="A UN commission investigating the assassination of Pakistan's ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto has questioned former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (pictured in May), according to the UN.(AFP/File/Raveendran)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A UN commission investigating the assassination of Pakistan's ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto has questioned former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the United Nations said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_asia_afp/pakistanpoliticsbhuttoun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091118/capt.photo_1258524676046-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=uNW9bBX9ez3oBgI2jeKuvg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="A UN commission investigating the assassination of Pakistan's ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto has questioned former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (pictured in May), according to the UN.(AFP/File/Raveendran)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_af/af_rwanda_genocide_tribunal ap/20091117/af_rwanda_genocide_tribunal AP world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:47:31 GMT AP - A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed to prove its case.