French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese ...
A UN commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed met the country's prime minister ...
MILAN (Reuters) - Rising sea levels, ocean warming, cyclones and droughts caused by climate change is set to hit hard food security in the Pacific islands, the United Nations' food agency said, urging governments to take immediate actions. Climate change is expected ...
US and Chinese proposals for tackling greenhouse gases were hailed Thursday while confirmation their leaders will attend next month's climate summit boosted hopes for a global-warming accord. Beijing unveiled its first targets for tackling its emissions and announced that Premier Wen Jiabao ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors welcomed new China and U.S. climate targets 10 days before a U.N. summit but an Australian carbon vote delay hinted at wider difficulties to cement a global deal. Traders in a $126 billion carbon market want tight climate ...
UN commission arrives in Guinea to investigate September massacre A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in this West African nation to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women ...
UN report: Congo rebel support spans 25 countries, including US and some in Europe One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries, including the United States and some in Europe, ...
The three members of a UN commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed arrived on Wednesday to pursue their investigation. Its Algerian chairman Mohamed Bedjaoui, Francoise Kayiramirwa from Burundi and Pramila Patten from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States unveiled its proposal to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 on Wednesday and said President Barack Obama will attend U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month -- before other world leaders show up. Obama will go to ...
A nuclear fuel swap inside Iran, as proposed by the Islamic Republic, is "not an option", the head of the UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said on Wednesday. "I don't think that is an option. The whole purpose of the deal is ...
A landmark treaty aimed at denying port access to foreign boats engaged in illegal fishing has been signed by the United States and a host of other nations, as well as the EU, the UN said Wednesday. Ichiro Nomura, assistant director-general of ...
France is to pass a law banning "psychological violence within the couple" and study the idea of tagging violent partners to prevent them stalking their victims, the government said Wednesday. Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced the measures in a speech to mark ...
