Top U.N. Official Pushing to Get Aid Into Stricken Sudanese City

Paramilitaries accused of atrocities pledged to allow international aid and investigators into El Fasher, days after an ...
WRAL

Israeli soldiers rammed UN vehicles with bulldozer and fired shots before letting them go, says UN spokesperson

(CNN) — Shots were fired during the Israeli military’s hours-long detention of a convoy of United Nations vehicles in Gaza, the UN Secretary General’s spokesperson said Tuesday. The situation ...
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Vehicles for sale at UN Headquarters

Periodically, United Nations offices around the world review the condition of their fleets and determine the vehicles that are eligible to be retired. According to UN policy, UN vehicles used ...
WESA

U.N. peacekeepers take cover as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks

ALMA AL-CHAAB, Lebanon — United Nations vehicles rumble along a deserted road in south Lebanon, past abandoned villages, destroyed houses and burned and blackened farmland — remnants of daily attacks ...
Reuters

U.N. to ban texting by drivers of its vehicles

UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he was banning all drivers of United Nations vehicles from texting while driving, to back efforts to curb a practice ...
Sun Sentinel

Israeli army fires deputy commander after finding ‘operational errors’ in killing of 15 Gazans

An Israeli army deputy commander is being dismissed as a result of the Israel Defense Forces’ investigation into what happened last month when soldiers fired on medics in an ambulance in Gaza. Fifteen ...
Reuters

Gbagbo forces attack U.N. vehicles in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo began attacking and burning U.N. vehicles in Ivory Coast on Thursday as tensions escalated between Gbagbo and the world body, which ...