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New York: Some 2,000 people, mostly women and children, from Côte d'Ivoire have entered neighbouring Liberia and Guinea amid the political deadlock precipitated by the dispute over the results of the Ivorian presidential elections, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Vivek Arora visited Manila December 1 to 10 to conduct the 2010 Article IV Consultations.

New York: The next round of informal talks between the parties to the conflict over Western Sahara will take place from 16 to 18 December in New York, the United Nations announced today.

New York: The United Nations today announced a new regional project that will enable food producers in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to boost food security by increasing production and getting produce to markets more rapidly.

New York: Health care-associated infections, an avoidable scourge estimated to affect hundreds of millions of people globally, are at least twice as high in the developing world as in high-income countries, according to the first review of its kind, co-authored by a United Nations health official.

New York: Noting that over 70 countries still consider homosexuality a crime, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for its complete and universal decriminalization, stressing that human rights must always trump cultural attitudes and societal strictures.

New York: Somalia remains in a state of “chronic catastrophe” with two million people in need of humanitarian assistance, high levels of internal displacement and indications that a creeping drought could push more people into hunger, the senior United Nations relief official for the country said today.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $3 million to assist in aid efforts in the wake of the Mount Merapi volcano eruptions, which destroyed homes and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Central Java province and Yogyakarta Special region in October and November 2010.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has executed a political masterstroke with his letter to the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram seeking a CBI inquiry into the raging lottery controversy rocking the state.

NEW DELHI: Indian Government is giving special importance to the three day visit of the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao beginning December 15. Indian officials say that the Government will take up the issues of contention with the Chinese PM in a mature manner with the aim of facilitating the process of further meaningful negotiations in the coming days. The controversial issues are so old and vexed that the officials do not expect any big breakthrough, they will be happy with some improvement from the existing positions and no addition of fresh contentious issues.