UNITED NATIONS, New York: Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, after a rocky first six weeks, appears to have turned a corner in calming widespread doubts about his leadership at the United Nations."There is no more rebellion, everybody is happy…

UNITED NATIONS, New York: The UN secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, said President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan had broken a personal pledge he made last month to give entry permits to a UN human rights team, and Ban urged the Sudanese leader to r…

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations’ new secretary general, on Friday warned that an unprecedented global surge in UN peacekeeping operations had left its leadership “impossibly overstretched” and unable to cope without serious reform.In an am…

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday named a top management team dominated by officials from powerful countries in a bid to win big countries’ support for longer-term reform of the UN.Some officials however accused him of bowing to p…

By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page A25 As the Bush administration struggles to rally international pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program, China and Russia are working to take the most powerful…