* Africa Cup of Nations, biennual football tournament held in Africa and organised by the CAF

These are the European Championship ( UEFA ), the Copa América ( CONMEBOL ), African Cup of Nations ( CAF ), the Asian Cup ( AFC ), the CONCACAF Gold Cup ( CONCACAF ) and the OFC Nations Cup ( OFC ).

Some other important sport events are the Lower Saxony Beach Volleyball Tournament, the international horse show German Classics and the international ice hockey tournament Nations Cup.

* 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.

A number of road and airport projects were initiated prior to Mali ’ s hosting of the African Nations Cup football tournament in 2002.

To date, they have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup and have made just one appearance in the African Cup of Nations, back in 1980, where they finished last in their group with just 1 draw and 2 losses.

On the 8th January 2010, The Togo National Football team's bus was fired upon in Angola whilst attending the African Nations Cup being held there.

The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Football Championship, started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and known as the European Nations Cup until 1964.

This means that the Zanzibar national football team is not eligible to enter national CAF competitions, such as the African Nations Cup, but Zanzibar's Football Clubs get representation at the CAF Confederation Cup and the CAF Champions League.

** Spain beats the Soviet Union 2 – 1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.

Nations which participated in the Mitropa Cup ( 1927-1940 )

The Egyptian national football team won the African Cup of Nations seven times setting a new record in Africa ( years: 57, 59, 86, 98, 06, 08, 10 ).

* Australian Nations Cup Championship A series for GT type cars which ran from 2000 to 2004.

This World Cup saw the entry and qualification of the Soviet Union for the first time, and the qualification of all the United Kingdom's Home Nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Other sponsorships of sports-related events include FIVB Women's Club World Championship, Tour de Langkawi, São Paulo Indy 300, Osasco Voleibol Clube, Mentor Nestle Nesquik Cup, Southeast Asian Games, Sukma Games, Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

The Poker Channel broadcasts a range of poker related programmes acquired from around the world such as the World Series of Poker, the World Series of Poker Europe, the Aussie Millions, The Irish Open, the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, the Great British Poker Tour, Poker Island TV. the World Series of Backgammon, The Million Dollar Cash Game, The Poker Nations Cup, World Poker Crown, The World Heads-up Championship and the World Poker Tour.

May has continued to be involved in poker commentary on other shows, including the William Hill Poker Grand Prix, PartyPoker. com Football & Poker Legends Cup, The Irish Poker Open, Poker Nations Cup, Poker Million, Victor Chandler Poker Cup, Celebrity Poker Club, and The Poker Show.

During the first Gulf War the United Nations activated a biological and chemical response team, Task Force Scorpio, to respond to any potential use of weapons of mass destruction on civilians.

Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale told the Lau Provincial Council that the government had a team of experts preparing a case to be taken to the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is based in Jamaica.

As a vanguard of the official U. N. force, a force of about 1, 000 U. S. Marines arrived in Haiti within the day, and Canadian and French troops arrived the next morning ; the United Nations indicated it would send a team to assess the situation within days.

* Task Force Scorpio, a United Nations biological and chemical response team

Seattle University was also a leader in the area of racial diversity, with an integrated squad known as “ the United Nations team .”

The United Nations team largely confirmed these findings, which were later accepted by the General Assembly, and both territories subsequently joined with the new Federation of Malaysia.

The conclusions of both the Cobbold Commission and the United Nations team were arrived at without any referendums self-determination being held.

During the first Gulf War the United Nations activated a biological and chemical response team, Task Force Scorpio, to respond to any potential use of weapons of mass destruction on civilians.

During the 1980s, the interdisciplinary team of geologist Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, archaeologist John R. Hale, forensic chemist Jeffrey P. Chanton, and toxicologist Henry R. Spiller investigated the site at Delphi using this photograph and other sources as evidence, as part of a United Nations survey of all active faults in Greece.

On the other hand, some weeks later, while assisting a United Nations and Jordanian team following the tracks of the person ( s ) who on November 1 had blown up a water-line in Palestinian territory supplying the Arab quarter of Jerusalem, tracks that led to the Scopus fence, the Israeli inspector delegated to the team denied them permission to enter the Jewish area around Mount Scopus and prosecute their investigation.

* 1896-1902 Glasco football team of farm boys played University of Kansas, Ottawa University, Washburn University, Bethany College, and Haskell Indian Nations University The 1897 team hosted the University of Kansas at home but were defeated by a score of 23-0

* 83rd Five Nations Championship series is won by France who complete the Grand Slam and do so by using the same 15 players in all four matches, the first time that an unchanged team has won the Grand Slam

The Welsh national rugby union team takes part in the annual Six Nations Championship and has also competed in every Rugby World Cup, hosting the tournament in 1999.

Contrary to some reports, SASR did not provide a security team for service in Cambodia although a number of SAS qualified signallers from 152 Signal Squadron were deployed as part of the Australian military contribution to the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) and FCU UNTAC.

Political preparation for war began in earnest during the period of weapons inspections in Iraq over the winter of 2002 – 2003, carried out by a team led by Hans Blix with the authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.

2006 saw the return of the 3-game contest for Bledisloe as the Tri Nations series was extended so that each team played each other 3 times.

Nations that do not qualify high enough to send a full team may qualify to send one or two individual gymnasts.

A United Nations team led by Olaf Van Duin and Nisa Nurmohamed of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works inspected the dam over three days in September 2005 and confirmed that the natural lip had weakened.

Special interest organizations range from the academic, such the Model United Nations team, to the artistic, such as the handbell choir.

`` Leading Nations of the West and of the East keep busy making newer nuclear weapons to defend themselves in the event the constantly threatening nuclear war should break out.

In 1913, the Monument to the Battle of the Nations monument celebrating the centenary of this event was completed.

In any event, many countries are obligated by various international instruments and standards, such as the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the recommendations of the FATF to enact and enforce money laundering laws in an effort to stop narcotics trafficking, international organised crime, and corruption.

At the United Nations Headquarters, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid addressed an event of the Unification Church in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the UN.

In 2012, Hassan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali ( 6th United Nations Secretary-General and current President of the UNESCO Panel on Democracy and Development ) gave remarks at the Unification Church event in UNESCO's headquarters in France, along with Akiko Yamanaka ( parliamentarian of Diet of Japan, Cambridge University professor and former Deputy-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ) and other 300 politicians and religious leaders.

Author Deepak Chopra was the keynote speaker at an interfaith event of the Unification Church co-hosted with UN at the United Nations Headquarters.

The event was witnessed by a number of world leaders and dignitaries participating in the 4th Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations held in the city of Doha.

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

The ceremonies were an invitation-only event, held at Place des Nations.

The sweat lodge ( also called purification ceremony, sweat house, medicine lodge, medicine house, or simply sweat ) is a ceremonial sauna and is an important event in some North American First Nations or Native American cultures.

Brock also began seeking out First Nations leaders such as the Shawnee chief Tecumseh to see if they would ally with him against the Americans in the event of war.

The ten-day event, which bills itself as " The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth ", attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway, stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon racing and First Nations exhibitions.

The Stadium also hosted the semi-finals and finals of the Olympic hockey and football tournaments, the Prix des Nations event in the equestrian competition, and a demonstration match of lacrosse.

The title has confusedly, in translation and in diplomatic ranking ( such as deciding who precedes whom in a diplomatic event such as a dinner ), been applied to some non-sovereigns, particularly in pre-United Nations eastern European nations.

United Nations secretary-general Kurt Waldheim observed Earth Day with similar ceremonies on the March equinox in 1972, and the United Nations Earth Day ceremony has continued each year since on the day of the March equinox ( the United Nations also works with organizers of the April 22 global event ).

The United Nations Association of the United States of America ( UNA-USA ), a non-governmental organization, holds an annual " member's day " event in one of the conference rooms.

On 9 March 2003 Short repeatedly called Tony Blair " reckless " in a BBC radio interview and threatened to resign from the Cabinet in the event of the British government going to war with Iraq without a clear mandate from the United Nations.

The falls are notable because of an event on 28 – 29 April 1994, when 250, 000 Rwandans crossed the bridge at Rusumo Falls into Ngara, Tanzania, in 24 hours in what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called " the largest and fastest refugee exodus in modern times.

Vancouver dragon boat event principals were invited by the Hong Kong High Commission to produce a combined dragons by land ( dragon dance ) and by sea ( dragonboat race ) cultural celebration at the XIV Commonwealth Games in 1995 in Victoria BC's Inner Harbour as a way to mark the official farewell of Hong Kong from the Commonwealth of Nations, since the territory was to be repatriated to Chinese rule ( from British ) in 1997.

In the West, International Women's Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women's rights and world peace.