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US: Pakistan to Reopen Supply Routes to Afghanistan

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Pakistan will reopen key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, after having closed them in response to a deadly NATO airstrike last year. The development comes months after Pakistan demanded that...

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Ban hails Action Group on Syria’s agreement, urges follow-through of commitments

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Left to right: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, Major-General...

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Global partnership key to achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – UN report

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launches the 2012 MDG Report.

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European Foreign Ministers Want 'Decisive' Effort to Regulate Arms Trade

Britain, France, Germany and Sweden are urging United Nations members to support a "decisive effort" to regulate conventional weapons trade.

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