http://www.yourstreet.com/news/united-nations YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us From my inbox: Gillian Sorensen, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations under Kofi Anan and currently Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation, will speak in Peoria on Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 pm at Barrack’s Cater Inn. She will address the topic... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756574/former-asst-sec-general-of-the-un-to-speak-in-peoria Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:09:08 -0800 NEW YORK -- A fourth foreign mission to the United Nations has received a package containing a suspicious powder. But New York City police officials say initial tests show none contain any hazardous substance. The latest envelop was reported on... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752647/nypd-4th-un-mission-receives-package-with-power Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:05:08 -0800                       These marchers may love the environment, but the environment did not love them back on Saturday. The rains were enough to dampen the enthusiasm of even the most ardent green-earther.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751775/click-click-international-climate-change-action-rally Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:31:08 -0700 BY LALLY WEYMOUTH Newsweek According to someone who knows Benjamin Netanyahu well, Israel’s prime minister views the threat from Iran in stark terms: he sees his mission as protecting the Jewish people from a second Holocaust. Like many Israelis, he is outraged... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6750585/the-question-isn-t-security-of-israel-but-of-the-world-netanyahu-intervie Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:19:08 -0700 Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appears to be playing hardball with opponent Abdullah Abdullah, and ultimately with the United States, before that country's runoff election. Since United Nations inspectors found vote fraud but didn't say who acted fraudulently,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751711/socraticgadfly-karzai-says-ixnay-to-power-sharing Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:23:08 -0700 [Actually, 3 Columbus Circle is glassed on one side, via A Fine Blog] · U.N. looking at lack of affordable NYC housing [NYT] ·... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752125/friday-pm-linkage Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:49:08 -0700 The United Nations sends an investigator to determine if the struggle to find affordable housing in New York constitutes a human-rights violation. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752064/affordable-u-n-puts-a-questioning-eye-on-new-york-s-housing Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:33:08 -0700 The hidden hand behind the UN & UCC Rome and the Villa Aldobrandini in Rome The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) was orginally called "The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law of Rome" This is the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751865/the-think-tank-that-thinks-for-the-united-nations-and-the-u-s- Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:50:08 -0700 Overview of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the US, Russia and France, on Monday, at Vienna’s International Center. BY JULIAN BORGER Reuters Talks between Iran and world powers on a deal to ease concerns about Tehran’s nuclear drive started well on... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6750266/iran-nuclear-talks-reported-off-to-good-start- Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:07:08 -0700 A pleasant sightseeing tour around Midtown turned to horror with a simple turn of the wheel yesterday when a double-decker bus plowed into a woman crossing the street. Lolaa Alrashied, struck just steps from the United Nations, was pinned under th... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6746785/terrifying-hell-under-tour-bus Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:57:08 -0700 Michael Meyer, chief speechwriter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former Newsweek bureau chief for Germany, Central Europe and the Balkans between 1988 and 1992, and author of The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742328/twenty-years-later-the-brian-lehrer-show-tuesday,-13-october-2009- Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:00:08 -0700 JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges over their actions during last winter's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745263/netanyahu-lashes-out-at-possible-crimes-trials-for-israelis Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:00:08 -0700 KABUL -- Efforts to resolve Afghanistan's fraud-marred presidential election suffered new setbacks yesterday when one of two Afghans on the commission looking into alleged cheating resigned over "foreign interference" and United Nations officials acknowledged that... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745266/world-briefs-10-13-09- Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:00:08 -0700 JERUSALEM -- In a formal reversal, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said over the weekend that he would push for immediate action on a United Nations report that accused both Israel and Hamas of possible war crimes in last winter's Gaza war.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745289/reversal-by-palestinian-leader-on-u-n-report Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:52:08 -0700 KABUL -- Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations' mission acknowledged yesterday that widespread electoral fraud had occurred. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745364/u-n-aide-defends-afghan-election-despite-wide-fraud Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:00:08 -0700 Katherine Gregor blogs daily from Copenhagen as the city prepares to host the U.N. Climate Change Conference http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744706/dispatches-from-denmark Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:00:08 -0700 The government of Ivory Coast, a country where nearly half the population makes do with less than $1.36 a day, has dropped $8 million on new offices for its Permanent Mission to the United Nations, according to city deeds. Alcide Djedje , the mission's ambassador,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6746991/cote-d-ivoire-drops-8-m-on-new-east-side-offices Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:28:08 -0700 Terroists are pushing to deteriorate stability in Pakistan. The Pakistani military have launched a brutal counter insurgency operation against the Taliban. Terrorist retaliation attacks have gotten more fierce. suicide bomber struck the United Nations food agency.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739586/pakistan-united-nations-building-attacked Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:19:08 -0700 The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog on Sunday said inspectors would be examining Iran’s recently revealed nuclear facility on October 25. Mohammed ElBaradei spoke in Tehran following talks with Iranian officials over a recently revealed... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6738364/un-to-inspect-iran-nuclear-site-october-25 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:31:08 -0700 Ban Ki-moon must move quickly to appoint an Under Secretary General to lead a new UN women's agency. Selecting a leader should be based not on national quotas, politics or horse-trading. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6732430/nandini-oomman-wanted-now-a-pragmatic-and-visionary-leader-for-the-improv Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:07:08 -0700