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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Five banks in Azerbaijan today signed trade finance agreements with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a move that will help local companies conduct more international trade and become more closely integrated into regional and global business networks.

New Delhi: India becomes the new Chairman of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council 2010. Shri R N Jha, Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunication took over the rotating Chairmanship from Ghana in a meeting recently at Geneva. The Council, ITU's governing body comprises 46 Member States.

New Delhi: ISRO is planning to launch 10 satellites in a year. The actual number of satellites to be launched will be decided based on national developmental priorities.

LUCKNOW: The recent bonhomie between Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party which bailed UPA government during cut motion on finance bill has not only confused the party workers of the both the parties but political analysts as well.

At a special conference, held somewhere in the Dantewada region, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) strategic-policy-framers directed the leading comrades and their following not to criticize 'friendly' intellectuals, even if the latter 'criticise our methods'. The meet - neither a party congress nor a plenary session of the central committee, took place a few days before the killing of 76 para-military cops including 75 CRPF jawans.

New York: Negotiations on the unification of Cyprus should continue where they left off, the United Nations envoy tasked with steering the talks said as he made his first public remarks since the election of a new Turkish Cypriot leader.

New York: The top United Nations humanitarian official traveled to south-eastern Niger to assess the human impact of a grave food crisis that has affected more than half of the West African country's 14 million people.

New York: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Sierra Leonean Government have embarked on a new initiative to provide free health care for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five across the West African nation.

New York: UNSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Sudanese authorities and political parties to peacefully resolve any disputes arising from this month's presidential and parliamentary elections as he commended the country's people for taking part in the recent ballot.

New York: Fresh from her visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which she described as the “rape capital of the world,” a senior United Nations official today urged the Security Council to make the prevention of sexual violence a top priority, and stressed the need to end impunity for the scourge.