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The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a rallying call to boost the fight against influenza, a potentially devastating disease that has been estimated to infect as many as 100 million people each year in the northern hemisphere alone.

A three-month spring drought has seriously aggravated the already precarious food situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, two United Nations aid agencies warned today.

Urgently needed relief supplies are being delivered to northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where tens of thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic fled following a failed coup attempt in their country earlier this year, the United Nations refugee agency announced today.

The United Nations refugee agency today said it was in contact with Turkish and Greek authorities over recent reports of a group of Africans allegedly "dumped" on the border between the two countries.

Japanese celebrity Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is in Afghanistan this week to raise awareness about the plight of the country's women and children.

Briefing the Security Council today on efforts to engage Kosovo Serbs in the forthcoming province-wide elections, a senior United Nations official welcomed the decision by four Kosovo Serb parties to submit certification applications for the ballot.

The main treaty for the protection of refugees - the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - marks its 50th anniversary Saturday amid concerns that some of its key provisions are being questioned and even openly flouted by a growing number of States, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said today.

A United Nations mission has travelled to Liberia to conduct a preliminary assessment of the potential humanitarian, social and economic impact on the country's people of possible additional sanctions, a UN spokesman said today.

Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have formally adopted an operational rulebook for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sets legally binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

The United Nations today announced that it would send an observer mission to Fiji to monitor next month's general elections and the immediate post-election environment.