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Bono visits UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in New York

Activist/singer Bono of the rock band U-2 signs the guest book before meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. offices in New York on February 13, 2008. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)


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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The head of the United Nations says the group must work with the world's parliaments to help the poor during the global economic crisis.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The United Nations is moving to set up a commission to investigate the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, officials said.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea, June 9 (UPI) -- Joseph Kabui, the president of Papua New Guinea's autonomous region of Bougainville, has died of an apparent heart attack, officials said.
UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday praised an agreed-to resolution of a fight over the contested Sudanese town of Abyei, a Ban spokesman said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 7 (UPI) -- The government of Pakistan has asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Ban to ask nations to alter food policies
ROME, June 2 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will urge nations attending a summit in Rome to suspend price controls that led to high food prices, U.N. officials said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 31 (UPI) -- The United Nations has been formally asked to investigate the assassination of slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a Foreign Office official says.
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 30 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday praised the signing in Dublin of a treaty banning the use of cluster bomb munitions.
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar, May 29 (UPI) -- Officials in Myanmar have been issuing visas to relief workers, but are not granting workers access to areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis this month, groups say.
BONN, Germany, May 29 (UPI) -- Loss of biodiversity threatens the environment and economic development, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a biodiversity meeting in Germany.
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