He said the U.N.'s own security will need to be increased during this transition period, which will require adequate funding from member states.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

General Keen says U.S.troops are working to assume more responsibility for aid distribution, which will allow U.N.peacekeepers in Haiti to focus on security concerns.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

He said lawmakers needed to voice a position before Wednesday's U.N.General Assembly consideration of a resolution supported by Arab countries on the Goldstone report.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

In September,a power struggle erupted in violence in the lower Juba region between al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, a clan-based Islamist-nationalist group which had been al-Shabab's main ally in its year-long battle to overthrow the U.N.-backed government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Clinton said a North Korean missile launch, for any purpose, would be a provocative act and a violation of U.N.Security Council resolution 1718 - approved after its 2006 nuclear test- demanding an end to Pyonyang's nuclear weapon and missile programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

U.N.children's agency in Somalia Deputy Representative Hannan Suleiman tells VOA that unlike countries like Yemen that may run out of water entirely in the next two decades, Somalia is thought to have plenty of water underground to sustain people for many generations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

(Speech) Iran's official Arabic-language al Alam TV is reporting (No Transcripts) The Iranian Student News Agency reported earlier the head of the parliament's national security committee, Alaedin Borujurdi, would put the U.N.draft nuclear deal between Tehran and the West to a vote of his committee after discussing its pros and cons.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Godane,who came to power after the death of al-Shabab founder Aden Hashi Ayro in a U.S.missile strike in May 2008, is firmly committed to the idea of using al-Qaida-trained foreign fighters to help al-Shabab violently overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government and establish an Islamic caliphate in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The U.N.report notes that the world's poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Gregg Easterbrook writes a weekly piece called "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" for E.S.P.N.com.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

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VOA: special.2009.01.15

That's m-a-c-a-r-o-n.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

The U.N.Children's Fund reports nearly half of the estimated two million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's Swat Valley are children.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

North Korea's deputy U.N.Ambassador Pak Tok Hun categorically rejected the resolution, saying it was a U.S.initiative intended to destroy North Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20