The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN.
"There was no hint by anybody, no special tip that led us there, " one U.N. official said.
They take him for a U.N. official running private investments on the side, and he easily fleeces them.
U.S. troops in armored vehicles deployed outside another U.N. compound in Kabul that houses the headquarters of several U.N. organizations, a senior U.N. official said.
"Last year ... 4 million people worldwide lost their homes, out of which you have half a million displaced in Pakistan, " said Manuel Bessler, a top U.N. official in Islamabad.
But Churkin drew a rebuke from other Security Council members, including its current president, after he questioned the objectivity of a top U.N. official who briefed ambassadors on the conflict in Georgia.
We've also expressed concerns about the Assad regime's multiple broken promises in terms of the commitments they made to Kofi Annan, the previous U.N. official who was responsible for trying to broker a solution there.
If you look at the U.N. agencies, I talked to one U.N. official who said that, you know, his own agency, up until a couple years ago, was active in every one of the 17 districts of Kandahar province.
Despite the horrifying charges, a U.S. official expects the U.N. to keep negotiating with Mladic.
Meanwhile, the first major ground shipment of food aid arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday after crossing the Iranian border, a U.N. aid official said.
"Iraq's known nuclear scientists are gravitating to the country's five nuclear research sites, " says Charles Duelfer, who was the second-ranking official on the U.N.
Eric Mouillefarine is the top U.N. humanitarian official here.
Despite these recent developments, it is encouraging that Israel has made previous commitments to peace as confirmed by the Camp David Accords, the withdrawal of its forces from the Sinai, the more recent movement of settlers from Gaza, and its official endorsement of pertinent U.N. resolutions establishing its legal borders.
"It wasn't so much about planning to initiate operations on a 'date certain, ' as it was about determining if the regime would heed the warnings of the international community and comply" with a U.N. resolution, the official said.
An official from the United Nations said the U.N. is not going to attend the ceremony, but said that is not unusual.
Last week, a Bush administration official told CNN that Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan, met with Iranian officials Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland.
"The alternative to a U.N. force is a European intervention, " the official said.
Liu Weimin, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Beijing was considering providing personnel for the U.N. observers mission, according to Xinhua, China's official news agency.
Former Arsenal and France captain Patrick Vieira was also at the U.N. conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and he told FIFA's official website the fight was moving in the right direction.
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Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, slammed the council for not issuing an official condemnation of Wednesday's bombing, although he noted that Kofi Annan, joint envoy to Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, condemned it.
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Annan, Iraqi Governing Council members and coalition officials, including U.S. civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer and top British official Jeremy Greenstock, are scheduled to meet Monday in New York to discuss the U.N. role.
Mubarak initially was said to be either clinically dead or o n life support, according to reports out of Cairo, but later a government official said the deposed president was alive and in critical condition, according to news reports.
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