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Olusegun Obasanjo, a special envoy for the United Nations, has met the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to negotiate peace with Tutsi rebels.
29/11/2008
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United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that rebel fighters have started withdrawing around two eastern towns.
19/11/2008
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The United Nations has criticised Israel's closure of the Gaza crossings as a "direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law".
19/11/2008
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David Miliband, the British foreign minister, has held talks with Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, in Syria's capital, Damascus.
18/11/2008
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Olusegun Obasanjo, the United Nations envoy to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has met Joseph Kabila, the country's president, in a bid to stop fighting between government troops and rebel forces.
15/11/2008
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The UN Security Council has overcome its reluctance to send more peacekeepers to help avert a new war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a senior UN official.
13/11/2008
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More than 100,000 refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been cut off from humanitarian aid behind rebel lines, the UN secretary-general says.
12/11/2008
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The UN relief and works agency has said it will run out of food within the next 48 hours as the blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel continues.
12/11/2008
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A Middle East peace deal is unlikely before the end of the year, the White House has said, in its first admission that an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians will not be reached in 2008.
07/11/2008
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Washington has made several changes demanded by Baghdad to a draft text concerning the framework under which American troops in Iraq will operate, an official at the Pentagon has said.
07/11/2008
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The United Nations Security Council has failed to reach a decision on an urgent request to reinforce UN peacekeeping troops in eastern Democratic Republic Congo (DRC).
29/10/2008
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Iraqi forces have taken over security control of the central Shia province of Wasit from the US military, making it the 13th of the country's 18 provinces to be returned to Baghdad.
29/10/2008
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UN peacekeepers have begun evacuation plans for around 50 foreign aid workers from a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the face of an onslaught by Tusti anti-government fighters.
28/10/2008
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Iraqi forces have been handed control of security in the province of Babil, south of Baghdad, by the US military.
23/10/2008
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Washington has agreed to consider Iraqi suggestions on amendments to the draft of a pact which would govern the US military's role in Iraq, the Iraqi foreign minister has said.
22/10/2008
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