UN Wire
August 10, 2007
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TODAY'S HEADLINES
TOP STORY
* Security Council votes for bigger Iraq role
QUOTE OF THE DAY
* Pakistani minister on the possibility of emergency rule. Read the complete story.
BLOG ROUNDUP
* blog
UN RADIO
* radio
UNITED NATIONS
* Ban: Haiti hopes high, job not finished
* UN: Peacekeepers in DRC aided gold smuggling, not weapons trade
* UN picks Australian as new police leader
DEVELOPMENT HEALTH AND POVERTY
* Zoellick warns of World Bank fund-raising struggles
* Commentary: Developing world faces chronic illness plague
* Wretched existence for many Indian widows
* South Africa: Outspoken health official, AIDS advocate fired
* Sri Lanka rejects UN safety concerns
* UNICEF: Record distribution of mosquito nets under way in Congo
DEVELOPMENT ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
* Some good news, finally, on environment
* Ice melt expands in Arctic
* Borneo's pygmy elephant threatened by shrinking forests
HUMAN RIGHTS
* Libyan official concedes torture used in medics case
PEACE AND SECURITY
* U.S. wants UN to push regional talks on Iraq
* Commentary: World Bank's Iran work counters UN
* Pakistan: Musharraf holds off on declaring emergency
* Afghanistan: U.S. troops to combat opium production
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