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UN's global malaria initiative names first executive

A United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to halve the global burden of malaria by 2010 announced today a new leadership strategy that aims to provide more effective support for endemic countries' efforts to tackle the deadly disease.

Nuclear material in Japan incorrectly measured in past, IAEA confirms

Following Japan's recent announcement that it is correcting the amount of plutonium previously declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations watchdog has acknowledged that the amount of nuclear material transferred to waste storage in that country had not been adequately measured in the past.