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U.N. warns of Asian foot-and-mouth threat
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A U.N. agency says it is warning veterinary and border authorities in Asia of a major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Republic of Korea.

Rinderpest to be history by June
VERSAILLES, France, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Rinderpest, a disease that decimated cattle herds for centuries, will officially be history this coming June, a United Nations official said Monday in New York.

U.N. report: Women lag in ag job benefits
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Women still lag behind men in reaping benefits from agriculture employment in rural areas, three U.N. agencies said in a report released in New York.

Blair: U.N. resolution on Iraq backed war
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry panel he disregarded legal advice on the legality of the Iraq war without U.N. backing.

Rights experts to probe Magnitsky case
GUERNSEY, England, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.N. human-rights experts will probe the prison death of a Russian lawyer who accused police in a $230 million fraud scheme, the lawyer's former client said.

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