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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2177 United Nations en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 22:18:35 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2177 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/us_nm/un_bribes_kohli_dc nm/20080512/un_bribes_kohli_dc Reuters Mon, 12 May 2008 22:18:35 GMT Reuters - An Indian-born U.S. businessman who testified he bribed a former United Nations procurement official in return for at least $50 million in U.N. contracts was sentenced to five years' probation on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar_cyclone ap/20080512/un_myanmar_cyclone AP Mon, 12 May 2008 18:28:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar_cyclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.3446129237844c9d9e99e18e10c3bdd3.myanmar_cyclone_xaf103.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=Awn6xi81hiY7n2kHRnzddg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Myanmar men continue repairs on a port area in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday May 12, 2008. The U.S. launched its first relief airlift to Myanmar after prolonged negotiations with the country's isolationist junta, which considers Washington its enemy and has restricted international aid to as many as 2 million cyclone victims.(AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Myanmar's military junta Monday for what he called its "unacceptably slow response" to helping cyclone victims.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar_cyclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.3446129237844c9d9e99e18e10c3bdd3.myanmar_cyclone_xaf103.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=Awn6xi81hiY7n2kHRnzddg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="Myanmar men continue repairs on a port area in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday May 12, 2008. The U.S. launched its first relief airlift to Myanmar after prolonged negotiations with the country's isolationist junta, which considers Washington its enemy and has restricted international aid to as many as 2 million cyclone victims.(AP Photo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_eu/myanmar_rice ap/20080512/myanmar_rice AP Mon, 12 May 2008 11:25:28 GMT AP - Rice prices in Myanmar's capital have surged 50 percent since deadly cyclone Nargis, which flooded entire rice-growing areas, a United Nations food agency said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/ts_nm/nuclear_un_report_dc nm/20080512/nuclear_un_report_dc Reuters Mon, 12 May 2008 10:45:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/ts_nm/nuclear_un_report_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t064524_450x252_us_nuclear_un_report.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=tohJtc7Rsx_Bsj6zRha8Jg--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 8, 2008. (Presidential official website/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More than 40 developing countries have recently approached United Nations officials to express interest in starting nuclear power programs, the Washington Post reported on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/ts_nm/nuclear_un_report_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t064524_450x252_us_nuclear_un_report.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=tohJtc7Rsx_Bsj6zRha8Jg--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 8, 2008. (Presidential official website/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_asia_afp/taiwanpolitics afp/20080512/taiwanpolitics AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 06:33:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_asia_afp/taiwanpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo55.120508083247.photo00.photo.default-512x363.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=EWDfqmA02mhteuSP60.Z.Q--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="China expert Su Chi on April 12 in southern China's Hainan province. Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou has named Su to head the island's national security council(AFP/POOL/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou named a China expert to head the national security council which coordinates the island's major policies, Ma's office said on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_asia_afp/taiwanpolitics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo55.120508083247.photo00.photo.default-512x363.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=EWDfqmA02mhteuSP60.Z.Q--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="China expert Su Chi on April 12 in southern China's Hainan province. Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou has named Su to head the island's national security council(AFP/POOL/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_afp/zimbabwevoteobservers afp/20080512/zimbabwevoteobservers AFP Mon, 12 May 2008 07:34:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_afp/zimbabwevoteobservers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndr09.120508174027.photo00.photo.default-512x317.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=0NgVt_.cmQhqv_byLi2PuA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="The moon rises near Zimbabwe's flag. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government intensified a crackdown against its political opponents, as the leader of the opposition prepared to return home to contest a run-off election.(AFP/Alexander Joe)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Zimbabwe's government will bar Western countries from observing a runoff election unless they remove sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's regime, state media reported Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080512/wl_afp/zimbabwevoteobservers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndr09.120508174027.photo00.photo.default-512x317.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=0NgVt_.cmQhqv_byLi2PuA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="The moon rises near Zimbabwe's flag. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government intensified a crackdown against its political opponents, as the leader of the opposition prepared to return home to contest a run-off election.(AFP/Alexander Joe)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazainquiryun afp/20080511/mideastconflictgazainquiryun AFP Sun, 11 May 2008 16:01:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazainquiryun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndl14.110508175727.photo00.photo.default-512x334.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=XQTrYlkriwEOhoQJkw38nA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A Palestinian boy walks past the gate of a United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) warehouse in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip last week. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has demanded that the Israeli army conduct an inquiry into the death of a mother of six during an operation in the Gaza Strip last week.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Sunday demanded that Israel conduct an inquiry into the death of a mother of six during an Israeli army operation in the Gaza Strip last week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazainquiryun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080511/capt.cps.ndl14.110508175727.photo00.photo.default-512x334.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=XQTrYlkriwEOhoQJkw38nA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian boy walks past the gate of a United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) warehouse in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip last week. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has demanded that the Israeli army conduct an inquiry into the death of a mother of six during an operation in the Gaza Strip last week.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/wl_nm/serbia_election_kosovo_dc nm/20080511/serbia_election_kosovo_dc Reuters Sun, 11 May 2008 11:48:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/wl_nm/serbia_election_kosovo_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080511/2008_05_11t074721_450x321_us_serbia_election_kosovo.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=10r9bn0wwI2ZiOA_iDhqdg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A Serb woman casts her vote during general elections at a polling station in southern Sernian town of Nis, some 250 km (155 miles) from Belgrade May 11, 2008. Serbs began voting on Sunday in an election that will show whether the lure of European Union membership outweighs their anger over the Western-backed secession of Kosovo. (Stevan Lazarevic/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Serbia underlined its rejection of Kosovo's Western-backed independence by conducting elections in the territory on Sunday, in defiance of the United Nations and the ethnic Albanian majority there.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/wl_nm/serbia_election_kosovo_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080511/2008_05_11t074721_450x321_us_serbia_election_kosovo.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=10r9bn0wwI2ZiOA_iDhqdg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Serb woman casts her vote during general elections at a polling station in southern Sernian town of Nis, some 250 km (155 miles) from Belgrade May 11, 2008. Serbs began voting on Sunday in an election that will show whether the lure of European Union membership outweighs their anger over the Western-backed secession of Kosovo. (Stevan Lazarevic/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza afp/20080510/mideastconflictgaza AFP Sat, 10 May 2008 20:10:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndg96.100508221015.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5cMg8CKxUzTLoFqQF3XHEQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The body of Palestinian policeman loyal to Hamas is carried to a hospital after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli air raids on Gaza killed five Hamas militants on Saturday as the Jewish state warned the United Nations it will defend itself against Palestinian rocket attacks from the isolated territory.(AFP/Said Khatib)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Israeli air raids on Gaza killed five Hamas militants on Saturday as the Jewish state warned the United Nations it will defend itself against Palestinian rocket attacks from the isolated territory.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndg96.100508221015.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5cMg8CKxUzTLoFqQF3XHEQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The body of Palestinian policeman loyal to Hamas is carried to a hospital after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli air raids on Gaza killed five Hamas militants on Saturday as the Jewish state warned the United Nations it will defend itself against Palestinian rocket attacks from the isolated territory.(AFP/Said Khatib)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_afp/somaliapoliticsdiplomacy afp/20080510/somaliapoliticsdiplomacy AFP Sat, 10 May 2008 15:19:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_afp/somaliapoliticsdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndg71.100508212618.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=zVHlEeEMZZ0GEttqwao_Ag--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Somali soldiers ride a vehicle in Mogadishu. At least 11 people, many of them civilians, were killed in Somalia when Islamist insurgents ambushed government forces in two incidents, police and witnesses said Saturday.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Talks between Somali government officials and exiled Islamist leaders that were due to kick off Saturday have been delayed, a United Nations spokeswoman said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_afp/somaliapoliticsdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndg71.100508212618.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=zVHlEeEMZZ0GEttqwao_Ag--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Somali soldiers ride a vehicle in Mogadishu. At least 11 people, many of them civilians, were killed in Somalia when Islamist insurgents ambushed government forces in two incidents, police and witnesses said Saturday.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_afp/myanmarweathercyclone afp/20080510/myanmarweathercyclone AFP Sat, 10 May 2008 20:46:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_afp/myanmarweathercyclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndh13.100508224342.photo00.photo.default-512x384.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=scfap6VCH2tOKLHkO07Bwg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="People arrive to vote in a nationwide referendum in Hlegu. Myanmar's junta held a referendum on a new constitution Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless it focussed on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last week's cyclone.(AFP/Hla Hla Htay)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Myanmar's junta held a referendum on a new constitution Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless it focused on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last week's cyclone.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_afp/myanmarweathercyclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080510/capt.cps.ndh13.100508224342.photo00.photo.default-512x384.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=scfap6VCH2tOKLHkO07Bwg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="People arrive to vote in a nationwide referendum in Hlegu. Myanmar's junta held a referendum on a new constitution Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless it focussed on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last week's cyclone.(AFP/Hla Hla Htay)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/pl_afp/zimbabwevoteusdiplomacy afp/20080509/zimbabwevoteusdiplomacy AFP Fri, 09 May 2008 22:14:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/pl_afp/zimbabwevoteusdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndc73.100508001406.photo00.photo.default-512x327.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=2oL_ofa4REbmJtdbOlqBhw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at a conference on May 7, 2008 at the State Department in Washington, DC. Rice spoke Friday with African leaders and former UN chief Kofi Annan for their insight into how to end Zimbabwe's presidential election crisis, her spokesman said.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke Friday with African leaders and former UN chief Kofi Annan for their insight into how to end Zimbabwe's presidential election crisis, her spokesman said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/pl_afp/zimbabwevoteusdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndc73.100508001406.photo00.photo.default-512x327.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=2oL_ofa4REbmJtdbOlqBhw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at a conference on May 7, 2008 at the State Department in Washington, DC. Rice spoke Friday with African leaders and former UN chief Kofi Annan for their insight into how to end Zimbabwe's presidential election crisis, her spokesman said.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/myanmar_cyclone_dc nm/20080509/myanmar_cyclone_dc Reuters Fri, 09 May 2008 21:44:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/myanmar_cyclone_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080511/2008_05_10t031403_450x300_us_myanmar_cyclone.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2zu1HnOkEMZ5MjXo5Jd9nQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A woman casts her ballot at a polling booth during the national constitutional referendum in Hlegu, 48 kilometers north of Yangon, Myanmar, May 10, 2008 in this picture distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. (Xinhua/Zhang Yunfei/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The United Nations appealed for $187 million in aid on Friday to help 1.5 million victims in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar and said it would resume relief flights despite the military government's seizure of food supplies.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/myanmar_cyclone_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080511/2008_05_10t031403_450x300_us_myanmar_cyclone.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2zu1HnOkEMZ5MjXo5Jd9nQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman casts her ballot at a polling booth during the national constitutional referendum in Hlegu, 48 kilometers north of Yangon, Myanmar, May 10, 2008 in this picture distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. (Xinhua/Zhang Yunfei/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/un_food_rights_dc nm/20080509/un_food_rights_dc Reuters Fri, 09 May 2008 17:27:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/un_food_rights_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t062038_450x395_us_un_food_rights.jpg?x=130&y=114&q=85&sig=Ff03SziDDchDkkJneVjUnQ--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="A Palestinian rests on sacks of flour received from the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) headquarters at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza May 6, 2008. (Ismail Zaydah/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world's food crisis is undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/un_food_rights_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t062038_450x395_us_un_food_rights.jpg?x=130&y=114&q=85&sig=Ff03SziDDchDkkJneVjUnQ--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian rests on sacks of flour received from the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) headquarters at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza May 6, 2008. (Ismail Zaydah/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/wl_nm/kenya_killing_dc nm/20080509/kenya_killing_dc Reuters Fri, 09 May 2008 12:24:22 GMT Reuters - Unidentified gunmen killed a senior United Nations aid worker in remote northwestern Kenya, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone ap/20080509/myanmar_cyclone AP Fri, 09 May 2008 23:55:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.b28b99f389b9433f867f191111c75505.aptopix_myanmar_cyclone_xmyn102.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=5rRcDGwUqEw2sWXzysoB0g--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Myanmar residents walk past houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar, on Friday May 9, 2008. The U.N. blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was 'unprecedented' in the history of humanitarian work. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar — but so is the heavy rain.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.b28b99f389b9433f867f191111c75505.aptopix_myanmar_cyclone_xmyn102.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=5rRcDGwUqEw2sWXzysoB0g--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Myanmar residents walk past houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar, on Friday May 9, 2008. The U.N. blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was 'unprecedented' in the history of humanitarian work. (AP Photo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar ap/20080509/un_myanmar AP Fri, 09 May 2008 00:56:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.5f617ed0ff2f47e1bde4f20eb56d987c.denmark_unicef_myanmar_cop803.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DNZ0YjUQTV7Dr.z_PB5BIw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A man moves pallets of aid supplies bound for Myanmar, at UNICEF warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday May 8, 2008. A plane is scheduled to leave Copenhagen later Thursday carrying relief aid including water purification tablets and soap to Myanmar. The tablets can purify 5 million liters of water, UNICEF said. (AP Photo/ Polfoto, Jens Dresling)" border="0" /></a>AP - Top U.N. officials criticized Myanmar's response to a devastating cyclone, calling on its ruling junta Thursday to postpone a constitutional referendum and to ease restrictions slowing the delivery of international aid.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.5f617ed0ff2f47e1bde4f20eb56d987c.denmark_unicef_myanmar_cop803.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DNZ0YjUQTV7Dr.z_PB5BIw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man moves pallets of aid supplies bound for Myanmar, at UNICEF warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday May 8, 2008. A plane is scheduled to leave Copenhagen later Thursday carrying relief aid including water purification tablets and soap to Myanmar. The tablets can purify 5 million liters of water, UNICEF said. (AP Photo/ Polfoto, Jens Dresling)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080507/wl_nm/sudan_darfur_un_dc nm/20080507/sudan_darfur_un_dc Reuters Wed, 07 May 2008 22:23:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080507/wl_nm/sudan_darfur_un_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.nds49.120508213339.photo01.photo.default-350x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=KyyTlYnVrDCCxFgQtW8UIA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Former rebel chef and diplomatic adviser to Chad President Idriss Deby Itno, Youssouf Saleh Abbas poses April 2008 in Ndjamena. Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday, its government said, ramping up tensions between the volatile neighbours after Khartoum accused Ndjamena of backing a rebel assault on the Sudanese capital.(AFP/File/Ali Kaya)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly condemned recent deadly bomb attacks on a school, water installation and market in Sudan's warring Darfur region.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080507/wl_nm/sudan_darfur_un_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.nds49.120508213339.photo01.photo.default-350x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=KyyTlYnVrDCCxFgQtW8UIA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="Former rebel chef and diplomatic adviser to Chad President Idriss Deby Itno, Youssouf Saleh Abbas poses April 2008 in Ndjamena. Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday, its government said, ramping up tensions between the volatile neighbours after Khartoum accused Ndjamena of backing a rebel assault on the Sudanese capital.(AFP/File/Ali Kaya)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_as/un_myanmar_cyclone_aid ap/20080507/un_myanmar_cyclone_aid AP Wed, 07 May 2008 21:50:19 GMT AP - Ships and cargo planes carried relief supplies to Myanmar on Wednesday as aid groups distributed food and other supplies to people left homeless by a deadly cyclone. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080507/wl_nm/congo_democratic_childsoldiers_dc nm/20080507/congo_democratic_childsoldiers_dc Reuters Wed, 07 May 2008 17:48:30 GMT Reuters - Armed groups in Congo's violence-torn east have ignored pledges made this year to stop recruiting children to fight and to free minors already in their ranks, the United Nations said on Wednesday.