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| 1 | U.N. acts against North Koreans | Nation and World |
| The council's action, backed by China and Russia, comes in response to a series of North Korean missile tests and its second detonation of a nuclear device. The sanctions also marked an escalation in the 15-nation council's efforts to constrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions. | ||
| 7/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | U.N. sanctions for N. Korea | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to impose additional financial, military and trade sanctions on North Korea in response to its recent nuclear and ballistic-missile tests. | ||
| 6/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Old foes in new U.N. roles may hinder U.S. goals | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — President Obama's U.N. envoy, Susan Rice, has pledged to "refresh and renew American leadership" at the United Nations. But U.S. | ||
| 2/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Conflicts swelling refugee ranks, U.N. says | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The war in Iraq and the conflicts in Colombia, Somalia and the Darfur region of Sudan have driven an increase in the global population of refugees and the displaced, according to a report by the U.N.'s chief refugee agency. | ||
| 6/18/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Cyclone damaged Myanmar "rice bowl" | Nation and World |
| BANGKOK, Thailand — Small quantities of drinking water, food, tents and other vital supplies reached Myanmar's devastated Irrawaddy Delta region Wednesday, as bodies floated uncollected in swollen rivers and sea-flooded rice paddies five days after a cyclone roared through. | ||
| 5/7/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | U.S. bullied allies, envoy says | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — In the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies, and pressed for the recall of U.N. envoys who resisted U.S. | ||
| 3/23/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Audits detail U.N.'s money mess in Sudan | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has wasted tens of millions of dollars in its peacekeeping operations in Sudan over the past three years, according to the findings of U.N. auditors examining the financial practices of its overseas missions. U.N. | ||
| 2/11/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Rebels say they're leaving Chad's capital | Nation and World |
| NAIROBI, Kenya -- Chadian rebels said today they had voluntarily withdrawn from Chad's capital overnight, but it was unclear if they succumbed to the helicopter gunships and tanks deployed by government forces. | ||
| 2/4/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | "Bulldog" U.N. task force earns respect, if not love | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — Robert Appleton, a senior U.N. crime fighter, has pursued corruption from New Delhi to Manhattan's swank W Hotel, where two U.N. | ||
| 1/21/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Darfur peacekeepers suffer humbling defeat | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force faced the first major challenge to its authority in Darfur, Sudan, last week, enduring more than 10 minutes of hostile fire from Sudanese forces without responding with a single shot. | ||
| 1/13/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Ban's close ties to U.S. make some uneasy | Politics |
| UNITED NATIONS — When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon first approached President Bush at the White House in January to muster support for a U.N. climate-change initiative, the president's response was cool: An impatient Bush reminded Ban that he did not want to restrain U.S. | ||
| 9/25/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Afghanistan opium production booms | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — Opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 34 percent over the past year, and the country is now the source of 93 percent of the heroin, morphine and other opiates on the world market, according to a report by the United Nations' anti-drug agency. | ||
| 8/28/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | U.N. approves Darfur peacekeepers | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize nearly 26,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help end more than four years of violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, which has left hundreds of thousands dead and forced millions from their homes. | ||
| 8/1/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Harassed aid workers get no relief in Sudan | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — On Jan. 19, a group of 20 international aid workers and peacekeepers celebrated their day off with an afternoon of dining, drinking and dancing at the guesthouse of the private relief agency, the American Refugee Committee, in the town of Nyala, Darfur. | ||
| 5/20/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Darfur force near collapse, U.N. officials say | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The beleaguered African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur is on the verge of collapse, a development that is undercutting international efforts to protect civilians and deploy United Nations reinforcements, according to A.U. and U.N. officials. | ||
| 5/13/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | U.N. backs broader sanctions on Iran | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to approve a resolution that bans all Iranian arms exports and freezes some of the financial assets of 28 Iranian individuals and entities linked to Iran's military and nuclear agencies. | ||
| 3/25/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | U.N.'s Iran report, out today, could spark sanctions | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON -- Despite the threat of new sanctions, Iran is advancing work at its largest nuclear facility and has informed international inspectors in writing that it will not comply with a United Nations order to suspend the program, according to U.S. | ||
| 2/22/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Security Council debates sanctions against Iran | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The United States and its European allies split Wednesday over the terms of a U.N. resolution calling for a ban on Iranian trade in ballistic missiles and nuclear materials, Security Council diplomats said. | ||
| 10/25/2006 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Security Council debates sanctions against Iran | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — The United States and its European allies split Wednesday over the terms of a U.N. resolution calling for a ban on Iranian trade in ballistic missiles and nuclear materials, Security Council diplomats said. | ||
| 10/25/2006 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Iraqi health ministry barred from releasing death count | Nation and World |
| UNITED NATIONS — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office has instructed the country's health ministry to stop providing mortality figures to the United Nations, jeopardizing a key source of information on the number of civilian war dead in Iraq, according to a U.N. document. | ||
| 10/19/2006 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||