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	February 20, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate IAEA inspectors arrive in Iran as nuclear tensions rise Inspectors from the UN International Atomic Energy Agency were assessing the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program for the second time in three weeks as the U.S., through its highest ranking military officer, warned Israel against attacking Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran stopped exporting crude oil to Britain and France in response to the latest European Union economic sanctions. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (2/20), Bloomberg (2/20), USA TODAY/The Oval blog (2/20)      UNHCR in push for child birth registration  Haiti moves to close post-quake shanties  Bangladesh biogas an alternative to wood, oil  Heavy Mali fighting sparks exodus of refugees  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Climate and Energy | Peace and Security 'A fragile country with a large food deficit'. @WFP's Ramiro Lopes Da Silva outlines the situation in #SSudan. bit.ly/xHObR3" @WFP "I wanted to draw people's attention to this fascinating philosophical and pragmatic debate over on the website of Global Brief over the provocative question of whether or not rich countries have an obligation to help the 12 million people suffering from the drought and food crisis in the Horn of Africa." UN Dispatch UNHCR in push for child birth registration The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is partnering with the global child rights organization Plan International to ensure that children, especially those at risk of statelessness, are registered at birth. Children comprise about half of the 12 million stateless people across the world, according to the UN agency. AlertNet/Plan International (2/20)      UN: Aid response in Africa's Sahel at critical juncture The UN leaders for humanitarian affairs and development, Valerie Amos and Helen Clark, on Saturday called for a stronger international response to stem the unfolding crises affecting 10 million people in eight countries in the Sahel region of West Africa. Approximately 1 million children living in the region, which is recovering from drought, could die from malnutrition this year, according to the world body. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (2/18)      Other News UN seeks independent probe of fatal Honduras prison fire The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (2/17)      Plan to dredge Great Barrier Reef spurs UNESCO assessment DredgingToday.com (Rotterdam, Netherlands) (2/20)      UN criticizes new Hungary law that makes homelessness a crime UN News Centre (2/15)      Haiti moves to close post-quake shanties Aid workers will be paying $500 to each of the estimated 20,000 Haitians living in a makeshift camp in the Champ de Mars park in downtown Port-au-Prince, just across the street from the collapsed National Palace, in a bid to shutter the country's most notorious camp two years after a devastating earthquake. The displaced -- like the estimated 135,000 such families nationwide -- will mostly have to fend for themselves. The Washington Post (2/19)      Other News Is hamburger from lab-grown meat the future of food? The Guardian (London) (2/19)      Russia has mixed record on helping its 700,000-plus orphans, UNICEF says The Moscow Times (2/20)      Bangladesh biogas an alternative to wood, oil A state-run initiative in Bangladesh uses cow dung to produce methane, a biogas that is being used in rural communities not only for clean-energy cooking but, in some cases, for heating and lighting, too. AlertNet (2/16)      Top five news stories selected by UN Wire readers in the past week. Russia softens over Syria as UN decries violence (The Globe and Mail (Toronto)) General Assembly condemns Syria by overwhelming margin (CNN) World's water footprint is mapped (The New York Times (tiered subscription model)) U.S.-led push to cut soot and exhaust lifts climate hopes (The New York Times (tiered subscription model)) Gunmen kill UN women's fund consultant in Cairo (The Washington Post) Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers. Heavy Mali fighting sparks exodus of refugees More than 44,000 people have fled northern Mali over the past 10 days to escape fighting between government troops and Tuareg rebels in what observers are calling the country's worst humanitarian crisis in two decades. The UN refugee agency said it is increasing assistance to refugees along border villages in Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso. BBC (2/18)      South Sudan defiant in oil shutdown after failed talks South Sudan and Sudan remain at loggerheads over borders and oil transit fees after negotiations again broke down, renewing fears of armed conflict. Leaders of the newly-independent south, where half of the population is impoverished, say they are committed to ending oil production to protest Sudanese transit fees they say are too high, and will build alternative oil pipelines to Kenya and Djibouti, bypassing Sudan. 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