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Highlighting the "great potential" of information technologies in fighting poverty, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed efforts by ICANN, the international body managing the Internet's domain name system, for its efforts to build digital bridges to developing countries.

The United Nations Security Council will hold an open meeting on the Middle East on Tuesday following a request by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who asked for the session to make a public plea to the two sides in the conflict, a spokesman for Mr. Annan announced today.

Following confirmation of three cases of polio among Angolan refugees in a Zambian border town, two United Nations agencies - UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization (WHO) - have joined a major collaborative polio immunization exercise in Zambia's Western and North-Western provinces.

The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) today lobbied European foreign ministers to continue their countries' economic and political support for the province.

After meeting behind closed doors to hear a briefing by the Somali Foreign Minister, the United Nations Security Council today held an extensive open debate on the situation in Somalia and ways of promoting the national reconciliation process currently under way in the country.

As the United Nations oversight body reported progress in the efforts by two UN war crimes tribunals to put an end to abuse of the legal aid system, senior officials from the two courts today vowed to take additional measures to deal with the problem.

Condemning yesterday’s killing of a staff member serving with the United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged the Israeli Government to probe the incident and act on its findings.

Expressing concern about conditions surrounding this weekend’s presidential elections in Zimbabwe, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged all sides to refrain from violence and fully respect the outcome of the vote.

As International Women's Day was observed across the globe focusing on the role of Afghan women, a distinguished audience, including the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, and Secretary-General Kofi Annan, gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York to mark the occasion and urge renewed efforts to promote gender equality.

A senior United Nations refugee official looking into allegations of sexual exploitation by aid workers in West Africa wrapped up his visit to Guinea today, reporting wide support for ongoing relief efforts by humanitarian agencies in the country's refugee camps.