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India today said the ratification of UN convention against corruption was currently underway and was likely to be "completed soon." The remarks by the external affairs ministry came on the heels of questions being asked about India not ratifying the UN convention which it had signed...
Fighting erupted today near the residence of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo after massive overnight raids by UN and French troops to destroy heavy arms used by his loyalists. "There are firing heavy arms and we are hearing automatic fire," a witness said early Monday, speaking...
Union minister Pranab Mukherjee today said India would endorse the UN convention on graft which the country signed in 2005. "India will ratify the UN convention on graft. There is a long legal procedure which is needed to be followed," the finance minister said at a...
Forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo have stepped up a counter-attack on presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara by firing on his hotel headquarters in Abidjan. Rebel forces seeking to install Ouattara, who won an election last November according to results certified by the United...
Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, besieged in his Abidjan residence, have retaken ground and are edging closer to where rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara is holed up, the United Nations said. UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy told reporters Gbagbo's forces had used a lull in...
The UN is sending a three member commission under a veteran war crimes expert to probe the the human rights excesses in Libya in the ongoing civil war with both rebels and government agreeing to give the panel an access. The commission which will be chaired...
Ivory Coast's internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara enforced a blockade today around his rival Laurent Gbagbo's Abidjan residence, as the UN said it had found more than 100 bodies in the west of the country. Reports of massacres in the west of the country emerged last...
UN human rights investigators said on Friday they would go to Libya this month to begin a probe into alleged violations committed by both forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels trying to topple him. The independent three-member commission of inquiry, headed by American war crimes...
UN investigators said on Friday they would start next week to probe alleged human rights violations committed in Libya by both forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels trying to topple him. The independent three-member commission of inquiry, headed by American war crimes expert Cherif Bassiouni,...
Forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara laid siege to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo's residence on Thursday, after an attempt to pluck him from his bunker met with fierce resistance. Fighting continued in Abidjan as Ouattara's forces tried to unseat Gbagbo, who has refused...
