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Expressing his dismay at "yet another terrorist attack in the Russian Federation," Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounced today's deadly bombing outside an underground railway station in Moscow.

Developing countries have made tremendous strides in improving reproductive health and tackling women's rights issues, but rich nations have provided only $3.1 billion of the $6.1 billion they pledged for these goals a decade ago at a watershed United Nations population conference, a senior United Nations official said today.

Prosecutors accused a former Rwandan army officer of playing a key role in the murder of thousands of people when his trial on charges of genocide and other war crimes opened today at the United Nations tribunal set up after the orgy of killings that engulfed the small African nation in 1994.

As the United Nations prepares to reappraise its activities in Cyprus, officials of the world body have arrived on the island to review the peacekeeping operation there, a UN spokesman reported today.

Noting the high death toll from the two explosions in Afghanistan over the weekend, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his deep concern at the continuing violent attacks on the country's electoral process.

While two United Nations missions probe the mid-August massacre at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report released today that eyewitnesses blamed a rebel group from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), along with Rwandan elements, saying the Burundian rebels who claimed responsibility for the slaughter were elsewhere at the time.

Iraqi officials today sought United Nations help in rehabilitating urban areas hard-hit by recent clashes, including Najaf and Baghdad’s Sadr city.

For a cost of less than half a million dollars, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has completed its largest-ever campaign to fight intestinal worms, treating more than 4.5 million children in Afghanistan against the biggest cause of disease in young children in the developing world.

The displaced inhabitants of the Sudanese region of Darfur are traumatized and humiliated, and remain at constant risk of rape, violence and pressure to return to their homes, a United Nations humanitarian official told reporters today after visiting the war-torn area.

Nigerian and Cameroonian delegates to a United Nations commission have met to discuss the peaceful implementation of a October 2002 World Court ruling ceding the formerly disputed, mineral-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon by 15 September, the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) said.