http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2010, UN News Centre http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/media/nslogo.gif http://www.un.org/news 140 Latest from the UN News Service http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33722&Cr=iran&Cr1= Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST Iran has teamed with the United Nations anti-crime agency to set up a financial intelligence unit tasked with tackling the spread of money-laundering in the country, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33713&Cr=nuclear&Cr1= Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog expressed concern at Iran's announcement today that it will step up its enrichment of uranium, with the country having still not signed an international agreement on fuel for its civilian nuclear research site in the capital, Tehran. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33699&Cr=iraq&Cr1= Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST The leading United Nations official in Iraq today strongly condemned the assassination of a female candidate in the northern city of Mosul ahead of the start of the electoral campaign for the 7 March general elections. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33679&Cr=yemen&Cr1= Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST Two United Nations agencies today warned that a lack of funding is hampering their efforts to assist the estimated 250,000 civilians uprooted by conflict in Yemen, with the UN refugee agency saying it has received less than three per cent of the needed cash. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33685&Cr=palestin&Cr1= Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has transmitted a report to the General Assembly on the follow-up to the report made by the United Nations fact-finding mission into the deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip at the start of last year. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33656&Cr=palestin&Cr1= Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST The United Nations refugee agency has closed a makeshift camp located between the borders of Iraq and Syria and relocated the last of the Palestinians who had been stranded there for nearly four years. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33659&Cr=iraq&Cr1= Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST The top United Nations envoy in Iraq is continuing talks with the country's various Iraqi leaders to ensure that elections scheduled for the first week in March can be conducted in a credible manner with the help of the international community, leading to an outcome acceptable to the Iraqi people. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33636&Cr=lebanon&Cr1= Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST A senior United Nations official today welcomed the release of a Lebanese citizen apprehended by Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday in a disputed area of land located on the border between southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights, announcing that the UN peacekeeping operation in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is conducting its own inquiry into the episode. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33639&Cr=syria&Cr1= Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named a Filipino general as the new Force Commander for the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Golan Heights, tasked with observing the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the region. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33618&Cr=yemen&Cr1= Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST As the humanitarian crisis in Yemen continues to deepen, the United Nations refugee agency today said that it estimates that 250,000 civilians have been uprooted since clashes in the country erupted in 2004, with the number having more than doubled since just last August.