By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 16 December 2006 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made the call at national reconciliation conference of Shi'ites, Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians to halt communal bloodshed Iraqi political figures took the first t...
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 15 December 2006 On Saturday, Iraqi political figures, parties and other groups will gather in Baghdad to try to find a way to stop the sectarian violence that in recent months has been killing on average nearly 100 Iraqi...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 November 2006 The threat of bio-terrorism will top the agenda of a sixth review conference of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. The two-week conference, which begins Monday in Geneva will review the ban on biological...
By Alisha Ryu Naivasha, Kenya 15 November 2006 Environmentalists and scientists attending a major U.N. climate change conference in Nairobi, Kenya are warning that Africa is significantly more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than any oth...
By Efam Dovi Accra 15 November 2006 A conference of African population experts in Ghana says unless deep-rooted cultural practices, ignorance, and war are addressed, efforts to save the lives of thousands of women who die each year from complication...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 06 November 2006 The effectiveness of a plan to filter out so-called blood diamonds is under review at a conference in Botswana. A recent report about diamonds being smuggled out of Ivory Coast will top the agenda. --- Represen...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 03 November 2006 The United Nations' Climate Change conference is set to open in Kenya's capital Monday. Topics expected to be covered include how countries can cope with increases in global warming and why the United State...
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 23 October 2006 Malaysia's renowned Feng Shui expert Lilian Too shows a mobile phone services offer her Feng Shui tips The ancient Chinese practice of arranging space to achieve harmony with the environment, called Feng Sh...
By William Eagle Washington 27 September 2006 A first of its kind conference meant to outline the challenges and potential of investing in areas that will lead to economic growth in Africa is being held near Washington this week. American investors...
By Joe De Capua Toronto 19 August 2006 AIDS conference, Toronto Some 24,000 delegates, literally thousands of scientific, social and community presentations and papers. Marches, demonstrations, tears and laughter, bold statements and cries for help....