http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2009, 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=33028&Cr=europe&Cr1= Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced the hope for increased cooperation between the European Union and the United Nations following the appointment of Herman van Rompuy as the first EU President and Catherine Ashton as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33016&Cr=afghan&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reaffirmed the commitment of the United Nations to support Afghanistan's progress towards peace, stability and development, as he congratulated Hamid Karzai on his inauguration as President for a second term. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33015&Cr=lebanon&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The military chief of United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon today met separately with Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss the security situation in the south of the country. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33014&Cr=monuc&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST United Nations peacekeepers helped passengers and provided emergency medical treatment today after an airliner with 117 passengers on board over-ran the airstrip in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33011&Cr=minurcat&Cr1= Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33004&Cr=iraq&Cr1= Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced the hope today that Iraq would move forward on holding national elections slated for January after the Presidency Council's decision to veto the electoral law. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33003&Cr=palestin&Cr1= Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Nearly 250,000 Palestinians in 83 communities on the West Bank are at risk of heightened violence in so-called "price tag" revenge attacks that Israeli settlers may launch against a large-scale attempt by Israel to evacuate outposts it considers illegal, a United Nations report warned today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33000&Cr=somali&Cr1= Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Piracy off Somalia's coast is a symptom of wider problems ashore, and any strategy to tackle it must also deal with its root causes and strengthen regional capacity, the United Nations envoy to the country warned today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32993&Cr=Darfur&Cr1= Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The top United Nations-African Union official for Darfur has highlighted the role of civil society groups in the search for a solution to the strife that has plagued the Sudanese region, encouraging their full participation in the peace talks that resumed in Doha today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32992&Cr=Bosnia&Cr1= Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations Security Council today extended for another year the European Union stabilization force (EUFOR) entrusted with ensuring continued compliance by all sides in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the ethnic war there.