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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency assistance of $3 million to help Thailand get back on its feet in the wake of the country’s worst flooding in more than half a century.

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – Next week in Baku, Azerbaijan, ministers from 10 countries spanning the Caucuses, and Central, East and South Asia will gather to mark a decade of achievement, including $17 billion of investments in energy, trade and transportation under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.

New York: The United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan today called on the country’s military to ensure that all child soldiers within its ranks are released after more than 50 teenage soldiers were let go earlier this week.

New York: The voluntary repatriation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in a refugee camp in western Côte d’Ivoire began this week with the support of the Government, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today.

New York: Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today called for greater effort to raise the number of women holding senior positions at the United Nations, saying that the majority of them remain in the lower ranks although more women are now being hired to fill management posts.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have commended the authorities for Lithuania’s impressive economic recovery, noting in particular the sizeable fiscal consolidation, the maintenance of confidence in the banking system, and the significant wage adjustment that underpinned gains in competitiveness. The export-led recovery has broadened to domestic demand and reduced unemployment. Given heightened uncertainty in the external environment, Directors underlined the importance of continued vigilance and sustained progress in strengthening fiscal, financial, and structural policies.

New York: The United Nations-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia ruled today that a 79-year-old former senior member of the Khmer Rouge is unfit to stand trial and ordered her unconditional release.

New York: The United Nations tribunal trying those most responsible for the 1994 genocide that engulfed Rwanda today found a former mayor guilty of genocide and extermination and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

New York: Increasing economic and social disparities pose a threat to children’s rights, UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon said today, stressing that much more needs to be done to safeguard millions of young people around the world.

WTO members meeting as the TRIPS (intellectual property) Council have reached consensus agreement on two draft decisions for their ministers to adopt in the 15-17 December 2011 Geneva Ministerial Conference.