Vienna- Before stopping its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, Libya obtained more sensitive technical information than was previously known, a confidential report by the UN nuclear agency shows.
According to the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which was obtained by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, Libya had acquired design information for a nuclear reprocessing plant capable of making 10 kilogrammes of plutonium per year.
The nuclear bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 contained 6.1 kilogrammes of plutonium.
Madrid- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will shortly appoint US diplomat Christopher Ross his new personal envoy to Western Sahara, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Wednesday.
The daily quoted sources close to the negotiations between Morocco, which annexed Western Sahara after the colonial power Spain pulled out of there in 1975, and the Saharawi independence movement Polisario Front.
Ross will succeed Dutch diplomat Peter van Walsum, whose mandate will not be renewed. Van Walsum has confirmed that he is leaving the job in an article he wrote for El Pais.
Nairobi/Kinshasa - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) has denied it is playing a direct military role in an operation launched against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
Media reports at the beginning of the week said that MONUC and the DR Congo armed forces (FARDC) had been sent to protect civilians from the LRA.
Nairobi/Kinshasa - The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of Congo have started a military operation directed against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), news reports said.
Kony is refusing to sign a final peace deal after two years of negotiations and is believed to have been using the time to rearm.
The LRA, which is well-known for recruiting child soldiers, has in recent months been attacking villages and abducting people in southern Sudan, Congo and parts of the Central African Republic, United Nations and military officials said.
Nairobi/Khartoum - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has threatened to suspend deliveries of food aid to Sudan's Darfur province after a string of attacks on its convoys.
"Repeated and targeted attacks on food convoys are making it extraordinarily difficult and dangerous for us to feed hungry people," said Monika Midel, WFP's Deputy Representative in Sudan, said in a statement.
The Hague - Russia and Georgia are to put their differences over Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday.
The Hague-based ICJ, the highest UN court, seeks to resolve matters of international law disputed by state governments. From Monday until Wednesday next week it will hold a public hearing on proceedings instituted by Georgia against Russia.
Vienna- Before stopping its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, Libya obtained more sensitive technical information than was previously known, a confidential report by the UN nuclear agency shows.
Madrid- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will shortly appoint US diplomat Christopher Ross his new personal envoy to Western Sahara, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Wednesday.
Nairobi/Kinshasa - The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of Congo have started a military operation directed against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), news reports said.
Nairobi/Khartoum - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has threatened to suspend deliveries of food aid to Sudan's Darfur province after a string of attacks on its convoys.
The Hague - Russia and Georgia are to put their differences over Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday.
