Extending condolences to the Greek Orthodox community, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today mourned the sudden death of His Beatitude Petros VII.
United Nations agencies have been rushing food and medical supplies to the hundreds of children and adults caught up in the hostage-taking tragedy in Beslan, southern Russia, which left 338 people dead and 747 injured.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today asked three judges to decide whether the trial of two Croatian generals over their role in a 1993 military operation against a Serbian enclave should be transferred to a court in Croatia in the interests of efficiency.
The "brutal and senseless slaughter" of children in the terrorist attack on a school in southern Russia only serves to emphasize the need for the world community to come together in confronting terrorism, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
A new rail cargo terminal of the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) was inaugurated today in what officials termed a sign of progress in the province.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed his horror at the large number of children and others killed or injured in the school hostage crisis in southern Russia.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today formally appointed British lawyers Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins as counsel for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic, who is facing trial for genocide and other war crimes.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today imposed defence counsel on Slobodan Miloševic, the former Yugoslav president facing genocide charges, to ease his workload and reduce the chance of further delays to his already long-running trial.
As the school hostage drama in southern Russia dragged on towards its third day, the top United Nations official dealing with the fate of children in war joined the chorus of appeals from the world body for the immediate release of all the hostages.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced the former prominent Bosnian Serb political leader Radoslav Brdjanin to 32 years in prison for torture, wilful killing and other war crimes.
