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UNHCR says still short on funds (Reuters) -

Reuters - The United Nations has saved millions of dollars by scaling back its refugee agency's Swiss headquarters but remains short of funds, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Monday.

UN envoy says Congo fighting could escalate (AP) - AP - The top U.N. envoy to Congo warned Friday that renewed fighting in eastern Congo has heightened ethnic tensions and could lead to the renewal of a wider conflict in central Africa.

U.N. wants more troops in Congo as violence mounts (Reuters) - Reuters - The United Nations' top official in the Democratic Republic of Congo asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday for extra troops to help halt the spread of violence in the country's eastern provinces.

UN: 80 dead, 100 wounded in Somalia fighting (AP) - AP - The United Nations says fighting has killed at least 80 civilians in Somalia's capital over the last two weeks. More than 100 people have been injured.

UN in Kosovo reopens court in tense north (AP) - AP - International judges and prosecutors began working in Kosovo's ethnically divided north on Friday, more than six months after violent clashes forced them to evacuate.

UN seeks aid for Syria's worst drought in 40 years (AFP) -

AFP - Syria has been hit by the worst drought in 40 years, endangering the livelihoods of one million people, the United Nations warned Friday as it appealed for 20 million dollars in aid.

Pakistan officials: Suspected US strikes kill 12 (AP) -

AP - Two suspected U.S. missile strikes Friday on villages close to the border with Afghanistan killed at least 12 people, most of them militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Japan to send military officers to U.N. in Sudan (Reuters) -

Reuters - Japan will send two army officers to Sudan, probably this month, to take part in a United Nations operation monitoring a peace agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

UN seeks new fight against Somali pirates (AP) - AP - A proposed U.N. resolution calls on all countries with a stake in maritime safety to send military ships and aircraft to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, according to a draft obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

More violence in Pakistan; U.N. children to leave (Reuters) -

Reuters - The United Nations said on Thursday it has ordered children of its international staff to leave Pakistan after raising its security level in the wake of last month's suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in the capital.

UN, Britain to evacuate children from Pakistan (AFP) -

AFP - The United Nations and Britain Thursday ordered the children of international staff to be evacuated from Pakistan in the wake of the deadly bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

UN criticises Iraq's failure to include minorities in vote law (AFP) -

AFP - The United Nations special representative to Iraq on Thursday criticised the country's MPs for passing voting legislation that fails to represent the embattled nation's minority communities.

UN to withdraw children of staff in Islamabad: official (AFP) -

AFP - The United Nations will withdraw the children of its foreign staff based in the Pakistani capital Islamabad after last month's bombing at the Marriott Hotel, a senior UN official said Thursday.

US backs down, will give Cuban journalists visas (AP) - AP - The United States has reversed itself and decided to allow two journalists for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina to return to their posts at the United Nations, the State Department said Wednesday.

UN urges rebels to free 90 kids in Congo (AP) -

AP - The United Nations on Wednesday urged rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army to free 90 school children abducted two weeks ago in eastern Congo.