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South African reported to be new UN rights chief
The United Nations chief told rights advocates Friday that his choice to be the next U.N. human rights commissioner is a South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country's High Court, the director of Human Rights Watch said.
Text of President Bush's news conference
Here is a text of President Bush's news conference Tuesday, as provided by the White House:  Syria, Israel leaders mark Bastille Day in FranceThe leaders of Syria and Israel, countries with a bitter enmity, as well as the Palestinian and Lebanese presidents together marked France's Bastille Day on Monday in a diplomatic coup for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  UN says it will investigate Bhutto killingThe U.N. chief has agreed to Pakistan's request to establish an independent commission that will investigate the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
UN raises Myanmar cyclone plea
The U.N. aid chief called on world governments Thursday to donate $300 million more to help Myanmar to recover from the effects of a cyclone that devastated parts of the Asian nation in May.  7 peacekeepers killed in ambush in DarfurIn a brazen attack on horseback and from SUVs mounted with anti-aircraft weapons, some 200 gumen ambushed peacekeepers from a joint U.N.-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, killing seven in fierce battles that lasted more than two hours, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
UN says 7 Darfur peacekeepers killed in ambush
United Nations officials say seven peacekeepers from a joint U.N.-African Union force have been killed and 22 wounded in an attack in Sudan's Darfur region.
G-8 tries to be inclusive, but wary of expansion
Despite its name, this year's Group of Eight summit had a cast of more than two dozen - and leaders said they will keep inviting heads of state from all over the world to give a global spin to its annual meetings.  Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goalA joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global challenges of our time" and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets.  G-8 summit opens with spotlight on aid for AfricaAid for Africa - and whether enough was coming from the world's major economic powers - was in the spotlight Monday as the Group of Eight nations met with seven African leaders at its annual summit.
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