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U.S. climate envoy says China tepid on climate deal

Reuters Environmental Online Report 18 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday criticized China and other leading developing countries for trying to weaken the Copenhagen Accord to fight global warming and raised the prospect that a fuller international pact may be not be struck by ...

Iran boosts nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings

AP Features 19 hours ago

Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions." Iran's acceleration in its enrichment program was a defiant step that ...

Haiti People Jolie

AP News 19 hours ago

In this photo released by MINUSTAH, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, left, meets with Edmond Mullet, MINUSTAH's Head of Mission and Special Representative of the Secretary General, at the MINUSTAH Logbase, now the temporary UN headquarters, in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. ...

Obama says world moving quickly on Iran sanctions

Reuters US Online Report World News 19 hours ago

WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the international community was moving "fairly quickly" toward imposing broader sanctions on Iran, as the Islamic Republic defiantly expanded its nuclear program. Obama said Iran's refusal to accept a U.N.-brokered atomic fuel swap ...

Obama says US developing new sanctions for Iran

AP Features 19 hours ago

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Iran remains on an "unacceptable" path to nuclear weapons, despite its denials, and that the U.S. and like-minded countries will soon produce a set of punishing sanctions against the Islamic republic. Obama and other administration officials ...

Angelina Jolie visits quake-hit Haiti

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 22 hours ago

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie visited earthquake victims in Haiti on Tuesday in her latest trip to help survivors of conflict and natural disaster as a goodwill envoy for a United Nations agency. Jolie, 34, who has been a goodwill ambassador for ...

Palestinian refugee agency warns of funding gap

AP News yesterday

Chief of UN agency for Palestinian refugees warns of funding shortfall, seeks $100 million The head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is warning of a looming funding shortfall and appealing for another $100 million. Filippo Grandi says the money is ...

Angelina Jolie to visit Haiti with UN refugee body

AP News yesterday

US actress Angelina Jolie to visit Haiti as goodwill ambassador for UN refugee agency The U.N. refugee agency says its goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie is heading to Haiti to meet with earthquake victims. The Hollywood star spoke with hospitalized Haitian survivors in ...

UN: some Haitian hospitals are charging patients

AP News yesterday

UN cuts off free medicine to Haitian hospitals it says have been charging The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients, saying it had learned some are levying fees for ...

Envoys go to North Korea for nuclear talks push

Reuters US Online Report Top News 2 days ago

SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior Chinese official met North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Monday and a top U.N. political envoy was slated to arrive a day later in a new push to get the reclusive state to return to stalled nuclear ...

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