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PTI 02:49 PM | November 12,2009
“No country is more important than the US in resolving this climate change issue,” Ban said, after meeting with Congressional leaders and Washington’s top brass
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Reuters 06:19 PM | November 03,2009
Brown, who has said he will attend the talks in Copenhagen next month, said he and Ban were determined to make progress in the Danish capital
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Shaun Tandon / AFP 09:59 PM | September 22,2009
Under Obama, the US House of Representatives approved the first ever mandatory national cuts in carbon emissions. But the measure only squeaked through and still awaits Senate action
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Marlowe Hood / AFP 09:34 PM | September 16,2009
The more than 190 nations at the table cannot agree on the treaty’s geometry or even on a procedure for drafting the text
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PTI 09:38 AM | August 27,2009
$10.4 billion has been deposited in the Development Fund from the balance of the oil-for-food funds held under escrow by the United Nations
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Lalit K Jha / PTI 11:00 AM | August 08,2009
Global awareness of the need for progress in nuclear disarmament is greater than it has been in many years, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said
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Saabira Chaudhuri 01:45 PM | July 11,2009
On the eve of world population day, the UN is calling for policy-makers to focus on women and girls. Mint talks to AR Nanda, executive director of the Population Foundation in Delhi
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Sidin Vadukut 12:30 AM | July 11,2009
Shashi Tharoor ran an unlikely campaign to win his first Lok Sabha election. Now as minister of state for external affairs, he must reconcile the India of his ideas with the India of the ‘aam aadmi’
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AP 10:52 AM | July 10,2009
The 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is charged with violating the terms of her house arrest by harboring an American man who swam secretly to her lakeside home and stayed for two days
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PTI 09:33 AM | June 11,2009
The 25 May underground nuclear test by North Korea was “in clear violation of Security Council resolutions,” said Ban
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Reuters 06:31 PM | May 25,2009
In the UN negotiations, developing nations led by China and India have accused rich nations of failing to keep promises that they would take the lead in cutting the use of fossil fuels
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Anna Ringstrom and Gerard Wynn / Reuters 11:28 PM | May 24,2009
UN secretary general says a deal to limit emissions at the end of the year may give boost to global trade talks
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10:34 AM | April 02,2009
France and Germany have warned that they will not agree to “false compromises” that soft-pedal the need for tougher financial regulation
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Bradley Brooks / AP 11:08 PM | March 25,2009
The UN body’s annual report says there were 1.37 million cases of people with both TB and HIV in 2007
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Alexandra Hudson and Thomas Grove / Reuters 12:20 AM | March 16,2009
Nearly half of the world’s people will be living in areas of acute water shortage by 2030, the United Nations (UN) warned last week
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