Ban Ki-moon

• Ban Ki-moon reflects on ten years as UN Secretary-General

  Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon has identified the Syrian civil war as his "deepest regret on leaving office."

  World

  Dec 30, 2016
  
• UN chief Ban Ki-moon fears genocide near in South Sudan

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he feared genocide was about to start in South Sudan unless immediate action is taken.

  World

  Dec 19, 2016
  
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• UN to send monitors as buses resume evacuating remaining civilians, rebels from Aleppo

  A fragile ceasefire was back on in Syria on Monday as buses resumed evacuating those still remaining in eastern Aleppo.

  World

  Dec 19, 2016
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• Buses headed to Aleppo for evacuation attacked, burned

  Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said.

  World

  Dec 18, 2016
• Antonio Guterres sworn in as UN Secretary-General, will replace Ban Ki-moon

  The former U.N. refugee chief was elected by acclamation in the General Assembly in October and takes over from Ban on Jan. 1.

  World

  Dec 12, 2016
• Portugal’s former PM Antonio Guterres set to be next UN secretary general

  Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin made the announcement to reporters surrounded by the 14 other council ambassadors after they held a sixth informal poll of the 10 candidates behind closed doors.

  World

  Oct 5, 2016
• Global partnership to combat AIDS reaches $13 billion goal

  A global public-private partnership has reached its goal of raising $13 billion from international donors to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday.

  Politics

  Sep 17, 2016
• Justin Trudeau opens two-day AIDS conference in Montreal featuring Bono, Bill Gates

  A conference that hopes to find ways to raise $13 billion U.S. to replenish the Global Fund in its fight against AIDS begins today in Montreal.

  Canada

  Sep 16, 2016
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• Poor need access to cheaper drugs, says UN head

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office says it hopes a new report he commissioned will help make life-saving drugs more affordable for vulnerable people.

  Health

  Sep 15, 2016
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• World Humanitarian Day: Ban Ki-moon says 130 million people need assistance to survive

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a message on World Humanitarian Day that a record 130 million people depend on assistance to survive, a staggering number that would comprise the tenth most populous nation on earth.

  Entertainment

  Aug 19, 2016