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Pakistan's New Army Chief Takes Command General Qamar Javed Bajwa has taken command of Pakistans army, the sixth-largest in the world. The official change of command ceremony took place earlier this week near the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. T
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 25 September 2007 An unprecedented summit on climate change has ended at the United Nations. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the event has sent a powerful political signal to the world that there is the will and
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the global financial crisis may have shaken world confidence, but not the international community's resolve to help the United Nations continue working to fight poverty and disease. From United Nation's headqu
By Kent Klein Washington 30 March 2008 The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency says al-Qaida has established a safe haven in the tribal areas near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that it presents a clear and present danger to
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 25 March 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged his personal support to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is urging both parties not to let recent violence derail the peace process. From Un
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 19 May 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon goes to Burma Thursday, where he plans to visit some of the hardest hit areas of the cyclone-devastated country and meet with the reclusive regime's top leaders. The U.
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 May 2008 Before departing for cyclone-stricken Burma Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hopes to meet with government officials, neighboring leaders and relief coordinators to plan the way forward
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 23 May 2008 Burma's military junta has agreed to allow relief workers of all nationalities to enter the country to help victims of Cyclone Nargis. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Burmese leader General Than Shwe made t
A regional summit on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is under way in Nairobi. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the fighting and warned that the conflict risked spilling over into the wider sub-re
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 19 December 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has returned from an emotional visit to Algiers where a car bomb ripped through the U.N. compound December 11, demolishing the offices of the U.N. Refugee Agency and it
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 04 June 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that dealing with the current global food crisis is a fight the international community cannot afford to lose. The U.N. chief is attending a world food sec
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 08 February 2007 The U.S. Senate has confirmed General George Casey, who had been the top American general in Iraq, as Army chief of staff. But the vote was far from unanimous, reflecting congressional concern about how
By Al Pessin Washington 10 April 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he no longer holds out the hope that the U.S. troop level in Iraq will be down to 100,000 by the time the Bush administration leaves office in January. But he does hope fo
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 07 January 2008 In his first news conference of the year Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged that 2008 has not started off well. The U.N. chief says he is hopeful about the New Year, but expresse
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named a former Nigerian president as his special envoy to help resolve the crisis in violence-wracked Eastern Congo. Mr. Ban also said Monday, that he is willing to go himself to Africa to meet with the preside
UNITED NATIONS, April 1 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday called for greater public awareness of autism, in order to fight the stigma and discrimination(区别,区分 ) facing those who suffer from the disorder. The statemen
By Alex Villarreal Washington 12 May 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is frustrated by the Burmese government's handling of the humanitarian crisis in the cyclone-devastated country. He is urging the military government to increase acc
The United Nations secretary-general is expressing hope that two envoys he has dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda can contain what Ban Ki-Moon calls a very serious situation in the region. Speaking to reporters in the Indian c
The top US defense intelligence officer says it is not clear how successful Pakistan's military operations have been in reducing the Taliban threat to US and NATO troops. The chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency tells VOA the Pakistani army shoul
UNITED NATIONS, July 24 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit London from July 26-28, during which he will carry the Olympic torch during the final leg of its relay, a UN spokesman told reporters here on Tuesday. On Thursday, at the