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Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed that the Special Court for Sierra Leone's funding shortfall should be covered by assessed rather than voluntary contributions by United Nations Member States.

The United Nations panel set up to award damages arising from Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait today approved awards of $203.8 million to various claimants.

The United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the bomb attacks in Madrid that killed at least 190 people and injured more than 1,200, and called on countries to cooperate in the effort to bring the perpetrators to justice.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the Security Council was responsible for deciding whether there should be an investigation of how President Jean-Bertrand Aristide came to leave Haiti.

A United Nations team has arrived in Cambodia to help with practical arrangements for launching the special court that will try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge.

Representatives from the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, charged with implementing a 2002 legal judgement on the border between the two countries, came to the United Nations today to mobilize diplomatic and financial support for its mission.

With erratic weather, severe poverty and the worsening HIV/AIDS epidemic combining to create an acute crisis in Namibia, two United Nations agencies today launched emergency appeals totalling $5.8 million to help more than 600,000 orphans, vulnerable children and women – a third of the population of the southern African country.

Deploring the killing of a Spanish television reporter covering a demonstration in Haiti, the head of the United Nations cultural organization has called on the authorities to punish those responsible for the shooting death.

Against a backdrop of over half a million pregnancy and childbirth deaths, 5 million new cases of HIV infection, and nearly 70,000 fatal abortions each year, a United Nations agency today launched a photographic contest as part of its efforts to highlight the importance of sexual and reproductive health.

The United Nations envoy for southern Lebanon today strongly deplored several overflights by Israeli aircraft in Lebanese airspace, which were followed by anti-aircraft fire from the Lebanese side of the line of withdrawal.