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The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti has launched a joint operation with the county's National Police to re-establish state authority in the Cité Soleil district in the capital Port-au-Prince.

After seven years of negotiations, a United Nations committee today adopted a draft international treaty to fight nuclear terrorism, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling on all states to sign on to pre-empt what he called "one of the most urgent threats of our time" that with one attack could change the world forever.

A refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) died and two others were injured as United Nations troops sought to protect the life of someone distributing food at a refugee camp in Burundi, the United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) said today.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan will travel early next week to Switzerland and Norway to address or chair several meetings in Geneva and attend a donors' conference in Oslo in support of rehabilitation in southern Sudan, where a peace accord in January between the Government and rebels ended Africa's longest-running civil war.

More than 5,000 Palestinians in a completely isolated area in the Gaza Strip, nearly half of them children, are receiving critical health, sanitation and education supplies under a series of shipments by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) which began this week.

An independent committee monitoring a United Nations civil rights covenant has asked the Government of Sudan to submit a special report on its compliance with six covenant articles, including the right to life and the illegality of torture and slavery, the committee chairperson said today.

In response to a United Nations Security Council request, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed a three-member panel of experts to monitor the arms embargo the Council imposed last year on Côte d'Ivoire.

Hundreds of former militia members in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rushed to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission's disarmament and re-integration programme today before a midnight deadline, bringing to 9,000 the number of the estimated 15,000 militia members in the area who have given up their weapons.