Topic: United Nations
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has executed a ruling party official blamed for a botched currency reform, in a desperate attempt to quell public unrest and stem negative impact on Pyongyang's power succession, a news report said on Thursday. The execution by firing squad in Pyongyang last week of Pak Nam-ki, Labour Party chief for planned economy, was for the ...
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was in Gaza City on Thursday for an hours-long visit to the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave. Her first stop was a UN-run girls school in the Jabalya refugee camp. The English baroness was also due to hold talks with UN officials during her brief visit to the coastal territory which is still struggling ...
The United Nations chief has signed a cooperation agreement with a Russia-led security group of ex-Soviet nations that some see as a counterbalance to NATO. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has signed the document along with Nikolai Bordyuzha, the head of the Collective Treaty Organization. The Moscow-dominated ...
