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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 30, 2016 - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday offered to act as mediator between India and Pakistan to defuse rising tensions over disputed Kashmir.
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Islamabad (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 - United Nations chief Antonio Guterres began a two-day visit to flood-hit Pakistan on Friday that officials hope will boost global support for a humanitarian crisis affecting millions.
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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at its outset by the absence of speakers from the world's top two emitters, China and the United States.
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Ny-Aalesund, Norway (AFP) Sept 1, 2009 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he was alarmed by the rate at which the Arctic's glaciers are retreating as he visited the region ahead of key climate talks in December.
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United Nations (AFP) Sept 18, 2008 - UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appointed two new special envoys on climate change, one of his top priorities, his press office said Thursday in a statement.
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Mexico City (AFP) Sept 10, 2008 - The United Nations has called for some 107 million dollars in humanitarian aid to help Haiti recover from four major storms in less than four weeks, a top UN official said here Wednesday.
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Paris (AFP) Sept 14, 2021 - Farming subsidies worth around $500 billion doled out by governments every year must be repurposed, three UN agencies warned on Tuesday, citing the environmental and health damage they cause.
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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - United Nations member states on Tuesday kick off long-awaited talks on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection.
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Vienna, Austria (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - The UN atomic agency's board approved Tuesday a global safety action plan six months after Japan suffered the world's biggest nuclear accident in 25 years, diplomats said.
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Vienna (AFP) Sept 26, 2011 - The UN atomic agency said Monday it was hoping to send in early October a team of experts to assist in making safe properly the area around Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Vienna (AFP) Sept 10, 2011 - A global safety action plan in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster and growing suspicions that Iran is developing nuclear weapons will dominate a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog next week.
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Kebri Dehar, Ethiopia (AFP) Sept 2, 2008 - UN humanitarian chief John Holmes on Tuesday urged Ethiopia to grant aid groups access to conflict zones in the southern Ogaden region where the army is battling a rebel group.
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Vienna (AFP) Sept 26, 2011 - The UN atomic agency said Monday it would set up a action team to help prevent nuclear accidents around the world following the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2024 - UN members adopted a blueprint for the future Sunday to tackle the myriad wars, environmental threats and technological challenges facing humanity that the global organization hailed as groundbreaking, but critics panned as unambitious.
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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 21, 2017 - The UN Security Council on Thursday warned that a referendum on independence by Iraq's Kurdistan region was potentially destabilizing, adding its weight to international opposition to the vote.
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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 28, 2023 - Members of the UN Security Council expressed reservations on Thursday over the Democratic Republic of Congo's call to accelerate the withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces.
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