U.N. assembly approves budget but U.S. votes against
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The United Nations General  Assembly passed a $4.17 billion budget for 2008-09 with the  United States casting the only vote against because of  provisions for a conference it sees as anti-Israeli.
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United Nations - The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab-backed draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council, which would have called on Israel to end its deadly military operation in the Gaza Strip.
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Syria Friday dismissed a U.S.-drafted resolution demanding respect for Lebanese sovereignty as a failure, after it squeaked through the U.N. Security Council.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States and Britain plan to push for a vote on a UN resolution sending peacekeeping troops to Darfur, despite a new rejection by Sudan yesterday of any deployment of UN troops there.
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The House's resounding vote on a nonbinding resolution rejecting a 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq places Congress officially in step with growing public sentiment against the war. It also puts President Bush on the defensive going into a far more consequential confrontation over paying for the plan.
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U.N. Secretary-General Flunks First Test Ban Ki-moon passed a crucial test in Paris last month, a French-only lunch with President Jacques Chirac.Comment
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The UN Security Council has put off a vote on a draft resolution that would slap sanctions on North Korea over its missile tests, to allow more time for Chinese diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis.
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The US House of Representatives moved to prohibit US funding of the UN Human Rights Council, derided by one member as a &quot;poisonous talk shop,&quot; as part of a mammoth funding bill passed early Friday.
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New York - The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab- backed resolution that would have demanded Israel immediately halt its week-old military operations in the northern Gaza Strip.
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The United States on Tuesday  vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an  immediate end to Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip  that have cost some 68 Palestinian lives.
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The United States would cut off funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council under a bill passed by the Senate, the latest action by Washington to target an agency it has harshly criticized since its creation last year.
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Friends and adversaries of the United States voted overwhelmingly in the UN General Assembly on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic, financial and commercial embargo against Cuba.
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Britain and the United States  called for a vote on Thursday on a U.N. resolution to allow the  United Nations to begin assembling a peacekeeping force for  Sudan's Darfur region, despite opposition from the government  in Khartoum.
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The US House of Representatives is to vote on a resolution opposing President George W. Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq, the first major repudiation of the increasingly unpopular war.
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A Japanese-backed draft resolution to sanction North Korea for its series of missile launches has &quot;broad and deep support,&quot; despite some differences in the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Thursday.
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Developing nations withheld approval on Monday of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's reorganization plans, supported by the United States and Europeans, who warned of death by 1,000 meetings.
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Sudan on Wednesday rejected a  U.S.-sponsored U.N. Security Council draft resolution to punish  it over a conflict in its western Darfur region, saying the  measure was unfair and lacked balance.