Crews battling rough, remote terrain hope to remove the bodies of 11 military personnel Saturday, a day after their U.N. surveillance plane slammed into a mountain in Haiti, killing everyone on board. U.N. police stood guard at the crash site overnight after ambulances ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Chile's U.N. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz will head a six-month U.N. inquiry into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday. The other two members of the U.N. "Bhutto Commission" are Indonesia's former attorney general Marzuki Darusman and Peter Fitzgerald, a retired senior officer ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon welcomes the new Afghan strategy unveiled by US President Barack Obama in his speech Friday, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said. "We welcome the speech" in which Obama outlined a new commitment of thousands more troops to Afghanistan and billions of dollars in aid to the volatile region, Montas told AFP on behalf of the UN secretary ...