ABUJA, NIGERIA-The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world’s most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full health, according to a United Nations report released today.
BANGKOK — The United States next week in Vietnam will begin cleaning up leftover deposits of the toxic chemical dioxin from the herbicide Agent Orange sprayed by U.S. forces on vegetation during the Vietnam War.
One day after Kofi Annan left his post as Syrian envoy citing increased violence in the country and disunity in the international community, the United Nations is meeting to vote on a resolution drafted by Saudi Arabia.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his army is engaged in a battle against rebels that will determine the fate of the country.