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Arab world raising its awareness of tribunal
Officials for the world's permanent war-crimes tribunal say their meeting with Arab officials and jurists scheduled for this week in Qatar is merely an 'awareness-raising exercise'.
Atrocities on Hutus 'genocide': UN report
The UN has released a report accusing Rwandan troops of raping and killing Hutu refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1994.
Abdullah backs US peace plan
Address to UN Minister warns settlements clash with pursuit of peace.
Friends of Yemen discuss extremist threat
GCC and Western donors meet at the UN to discuss the threat posed to the Gulf state by militants in the south.
Ahmadinejad defends remarks made at UN about 9/11 attacks
The Iranian president said US officials might have been responsible and called for an independent investigation into the strike and subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ahmadinejad defends remarks about 9/11 attacks
The Iranian president has defended remarks he made about the 9/11 attacks and said US officials might have been responsible.
Obama says Middle East peace possible within a year
In speech to packed UN General Assembly US President urged leaders to cast aside decades of division and mistrust and support a peace bid.
Obama unveils aid overhaul plan at UN
The US president unveiled a shake-up of the United States' trade, investment and development policies in a bid to free aid-dependent nations from relying on foreign cash flows.
Qatar's first lady tell UN 'not enough children in schools'
Sheikha Mozah says children in conflict-hit regions, including Gaza, Afghanistan and Iraq, are more likely to be deprived of education.
UAE tells rich nations they must keep aid pledges
Minister's address to UN says hard economic times are no excuse to turn backs on the needy, after Emirates gave $3bn last year
GCC urged to plug Palestinian cash gap
Gulf countries should support Middle East peace by coming good on their pledges and funding state-building in Palestine, top Norwegian and Palestinian officials say.
Sheikh Abdullah in UN challenge to fight global poverty
The UAE Foreign Minister is on a specially appointed UN panel asked to find answers to the world's most pressing problems.
UN meeting to address global food price volatility
The Food and Agriculture Organisation has scheduled the one-day meeting to take place in Rome on September 24 in response to volatility in the world cereal markets.
'UN climate panel needs major reform'
A according to a review the action is needed to avoid a repeat of the errors contained in its 2007 global warming study,
Cordoba House tests US faith in religious freedom
Protesters face off at Ground Zero mosque site as most Americans support the right to build it, but argue the location is too sensitive.
