AMSTERDAM (AP) — Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal. His departure takes effect July 1, five months before 193 nations are due to reconvene [...]

(BBC NEWS) — A controversy has erupted in Copenhagen after the UN secretary general said talks should focus on keeping global temperature rises below 2C 3.6F. In an interview with BBC News, Ban Ki-moon said the target was a realistic ambition for the climate summit. But developing nations delegates, who want emissions capped to limit [...]

(TIMES ONLINE) — The 400-year-old freedom of the high seas would be lost under United Nations plans to limit environmental damage. Military forces of several nations are in discussions with conservationists over pooling surveillance resources to enforce the changes. via UN may curtail 400-year-old ‘freedom of the seas’ – Times Online.

(WSJ.com) – The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents — posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate-change research center — that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend humans are responsible for global warming. via WSJ.com. Download “Climategate” emails and [...]

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world. via Mexico border city groups call for UN peacekeepers – Yahoo! News.

(NY POST) — Forty people underwent precautionary decontamination last night after a suspicious white powder was mailed to the Midtown diplomatic outposts of three countries. via UN sites in ‘thrax scare.

(Xinhua) — Jerusalem must be the capital of two States — Israel and Palestine — living side-by-side in peace and security, with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to all, if peace in the Middle East is to be achieved, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday. “This is the road to the fulfillment of [...]

(AFP) — Interpol, the global police organisation, said Monday it will provide enhanced technical and advisory support to the United Nations in the world body’s peacekeeping missions worldwide. Interpol director of legal affairs Joel Sollier told reporters in Singapore that his organisation “will provide advice and consulting services in the area of policing during peacekeeping [...]

We thought the voices differed at about the minus 20 minute mark. I jokingly told Derek the poor interpreter must have left for a much needed lunch. — PID (NY POST) — After struggling to turn Khadafy’s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter got lost in [...]

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. Eccl. [...]

(THE OBSERVER) — The swine flu pandemic could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world’s poorest nations unless £900m can be raised from rich countries to pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines, says a UN report leaked to the Observer. The disclosure will provoke concerns that health officials will not be able to stem [...]

(FINANCIAL TIMES) — Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council. The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament – one of several [...]

(TELEGRAPH) — In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and economic crises. It added that the present system, under which the dollar acts as the [...]

This power play by Obama isn’t likely to alter Netanyahu’s decision to allow ‘natural growth’ in settlement areas.