- - http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2007, UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/media/nslogo.gif http://www.un.org/news 140 Latest from the UN News Service - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21519&Cr=Ki-moon&Cr1=restructure Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST Acting on his pledge to achieve continuity with change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who took office on 1 January, today named four new senior officials to his cabinet while retaining a dozen others. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21528&Cr=palestin&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST Reacting to the agreement to form a Palestinian national unity Government, the diplomatic Quartet - made up of the United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union - today voiced hope that it would serve to foster calm in the region. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21529&Cr=ivoire&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The people of Côte d’Ivoire now have "an historic chance" of ending the long stalemate in its peace process, the outgoing United Nations envoy to the divided country said today. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21523&Cr=habitat&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The United Nations agency tasked with promoting socially and environmentally sustainable housing has launched a joint project with Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to improve the water and sanitation facilities of six towns around Lake Victoria. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21510&Cr=refugees&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The United Nations refugee agency is seriously concerned about the situation of some 400 people of various nationalities on a ship drifting off the West African coast, who have not been allowed to disembark for several days. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21515&Cr=haiti&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST United Nations peacekeeping soldiers in Haiti launched an early morning operation today in Port-au-Prince, the capital, to establish the strongest security presence ever in the Boston area in the continuing battle against criminal gangs. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21509&Cr=floods&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST Floods across southern Africa are wreaking havoc for hundreds of thousands of people caught by rising waters that have washed away crops, homes and claimed the lives of dozens of people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported today, calling on the international community for speedy aid to alleviate the suffering. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21511&Cr=hiv&Cr1=aids Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST Faith-based organizations play a major role in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa and greater collaboration between them and public health agencies is needed if progress is to be made towards the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, according to a new United Nations study. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21512&Cr=chile&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today offered Chile assistance in repairing damage caused by the fire that destroyed part of the historical centre of the port city of Valparaiso last week, killing several people. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21513&Cr=serbia&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST There are still over 300,000 children in Serbia who are living in poverty or are at risk of poverty despite important steps that have been taken to improve the situation since the late 1990s, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21514&Cr=nepal&Cr1= Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The United Nations food agency in Nepal will extend its aid operations to three drought-affected districts of the eastern Terai - an area seized with political violence over the last month - while continuing assistance until the end of June to drought victims in the mid- and far-western regions, efforts that will directly benefit around 400,000 people. - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21524&Cr=indonesia&Cr1=floods Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The top United Nations humanitarian official today released up to $2 million from the world body’s emergency fund to help Indonesia’s Government deal with the deadly floods that have already killed at least 50 people and displaced half a million others in the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas.