UN special tribunal sought for peacekeeper sex crimes

Missionary Gregory Dow, 61, admits to abusing four girls in an orphanage that he helped set up.

>Not long ago, I was at a dinner party with several couples in their 40s, all married except for my boyfriend and me. The mood was jovial until, over dessert, one guest made an offhand joke about Internet porn.

A UN soldier becomes the first peacekeeper to die in the Central African Republic (CAR) after a convoy was ambushed on the outskirts of the capital Bangui.

Gunmen launch an attack on a UN camp in northern Mali, killing a UN peacekeeper and injuring at least one other, residents and eyewitnesses say.

A Rwandan UN peacekeeper in the Central African Republic shot dead four colleagues on Saturday and wounded eight others at their base before being gunned down himself, military sources said.

The UN mission in the Central African Republic launched a probe Tuesday into allegations its soldiers had raped a 12-year-old girl and shot dead a teenager and his father.

Mr. David Nabarro.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS DAVID NABARRO AS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR EBOLA AND ANTHONY BANBURY AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE (UNMEER)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David Nabarro of the United Kingdom as his Special Envoy for Ebola and Anthony Banbury as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).

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