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Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the 63rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 26, 2008 in New York City. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
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KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 18 (UPI) -- An estimated 3,000 child soldiers are to be released by November from camps in Nepal holding former Maoist rebel fighters, authorities said.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, July 17 (UPI) -- A U.N. team investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited the city of Rawalpindi where the leader was killed.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 17 (UPI) -- The U.N. team investigating the 2007 assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto visited the city Friday where she was killed.
UNITED NATIONS, July 16 (UPI) -- The United Nations is urging Afghanistan to conduct a transparent voting process in August in its first attempt at independent democratic elections.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 16 (UPI) -- A United Nations worker was killed and another U.N. employee was injured during a kidnapping attempt in northwestern Pakistan Thursday, officials said.
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, July 16 (UPI) -- Leaders from more than 100 Non-Aligned Movement nations meeting in Egypt aligned themselves against terrorism in a declaration up for adoption Thursday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 15 (UPI) -- Israeli and Lebanese forces narrowly avoided confrontation over the presence of an Israeli observation post in a village near the so-called Blue Line.
BUFFALO, N.Y., July 15 (UPI) -- The wife of a Buffalo, N.Y. minister has pleaded innocent to federal charges of defrauding the United Nations out of money for an Iraqi radio station.
DAMASCUS, Syria, July 13 (UPI) -- Syria has no intention of redrawing its border with Lebanon until Israeli forces withdraw from the disputed Shebaa Farms region, Damascus complains.
