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Ministers from across the Asia-Pacific region – where relative wealth has not translated into health investments – today heard calls at a United Nations meeting in Kazakhstan for more government spending on medical care in order to combat poverty.

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending freedom of the press has condemned the murder of two Iraqi news journalists who were ambushed and shot dead as they made their way home from work last week in Baghdad.

An indigenous group in Malaysia, nomadic children in China and an HIV-positive couple in India are the focus of stories that have won United Nations prizes for media that depicts the quest to meet UN-backed development goals in the Asia-Pacific region.

When the Brazilian midfielder Kaká takes to the field tomorrow night to battle for one of soccer’s most glittering prizes, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) ambassador will dedicate his participation to the plight of the world’s estimated 400 million hungry children.

Strategies should be found for determining the future of each of the world’s 16 remaining territories that are not yet self-governing, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a United Nations seminar on decolonization in the Caribbean today.

The author of the acclaimed international best-seller “The Kite Runner” has praised the United Nations refugee agency in his new novel, calling his work as a Goodwill Envoy one of the most rewarding and momentous experiences of his life.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today designated senior adviser Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria as his representative in carrying out the diplomatic brief given to him by the General Assembly on Myanmar.

United Nations agencies are providing much-needed assistance to the Maldives, which is suffering from the effects of two days of wave swells last week which have impacted at least 35 islands in 13 atolls in the Indian Ocean nation.

The United Nations today strongly condemned the capture of two international health workers in the increasingly unstable northwestern region of the Central African Republic (CAR), urging their immediate release.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is dispatching his new Middle East envoy Michael Williams to the region for consultations after a week of deadly violence involving intra-Palestinian clashes, Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli military operations.