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The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) has begun deploying peacekeepers to Kono District in Eastern Province - the latest move in its ongoing efforts to further re-establish its presence throughout the country.

The United Nations refugee agency has strongly condemned last Friday's attack on a police post in southern Serbia near the Kosovo boundary, during which unknown assailants gunned down two officers and severely wounded two others.

Responding to recent complaints by Australian officials and oil company representatives over a change in incentives offered for petroleum exploration in the Timor Gap, senior United Nations and East Timorese officials have said the criticisms were "neither balanced nor accurate."

Cities have a crucial role to play in making science and technology work for the common good, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message to a meeting of mayors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Putting the final touches in preparation for the upcoming world anti-racism conference, the United Nations today signed an accord with the host country, South Africa, to outline legal responsibilities for the event.

The United Nations refugee agency has dispatched emergency supplies to 5,000 residents returning to a village outside Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, since the Government reopened the town last Sunday.

The authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina have arrested three former military men indicted by the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for crimes committed in central Bosnia between January 1993 and January 1994, the United Nations war crimes court announced today.

The international community needed to acknowledge past racism and other forms of prejudice but needed to find forward-looking solutions to avoid repeating the mistakes of earlier times, speakers at a United Nations roundtable stressed today.

The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) today launched an initiative to sensitize people in the northern part of the country about the role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the nation's peace process.

Making public the findings of an internal probe into the handling of a videotape filmed by United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon in the wake of the abduction of three Israeli soldiers by the Hizbollah, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed regret over "serious errors of judgement" by UN officials and pledged to take steps to preclude breakdowns in communications within the UN chain of command.