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Union Electric
Union Electric Company is an investor-owned electric utility founded in 1902 in St. Louis, Missouri, now doing business as Ameren Missouri and serving about 1.2 million customers.
Unión Eléctrica de Cuba
Unión Eléctrica de Cuba (UNE) is Cuba's state-owned electric utility, operating the national power system under the Ministry of Energy and Mines and facing repeated total grid collapses since 2024.
Union for a Popular Movement
Union for a Popular Movement (UMP, Union pour un mouvement populaire), French center-right party founded 2002 from the RPR, DL, and UDF members to back Chirac; won 313 Assembly seats in 2007, lost power in 2012, renamed Les Républicains in 2015.
Union for National Progress
The Union for National Progress (UPRONA) is a Burundian political party founded in 1958 by Prince Louis Rwagasore, which led Burundi to independence in 1962.
Union for the Liberation of Ukraine
The Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (Союз визволення України, SVU) was a body of Ukrainian émigrés founded in Lviv in 1914 to promote Ukrainian independence.
Union for the Mediterranean
Union for the Mediterranean (UfM, Union pour la Méditerranée): intergovernmental organization founded at the Paris Summit of 13 July 2008, uniting all EU member states and 16 Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries; successor to the 1995 Barcelona Process, Secretariat in Barcelona since 2010, co-chaired by the EU and Jordan.
Union for the Republic (Mauritania)
The Union for the Republic (UPR) was a Mauritanian ruling party founded in 2009 to support Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, renamed El Insaf in July 2022.
Union gurten
Union Gurten (Union Raiffeisen Gurten since 2021) is an Austrian amateur football club founded in 1961 in Gurten, Upper Austria, playing at the Park21-Arena in the Regionalliga, with eight lower-league titles, ÖFB Cup runs, and a 2021 mission-statement rebranding.
Union Hospital
Union Hospital refers to several unrelated hospitals: a private hospital in Tai Wai, Hong Kong; Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, a 2,500-bed public Grade III Class A teaching hospital in Fuzhou; and a Cleveland Clinic community hospital in Dover, Ohio.
Union internationale amateur de football association
Union internationale amateur de football association (UIAFA), a short-lived rival to FIFA founded March 1909 in Paris by England's AFA, Bohemia's ČSF, and France's USFFA over amateurism disputes; inactive by 1912-1913.
Union internationale de pentathlon moderne
Union internationale de pentathlon moderne (UIPM), founded 1948 in Sandhurst, England, is the Monaco-based world governing body of Modern Pentathlon, Laser Run, and Obstacle sports; 131 federations, president Rob Stull since 2024.
Union internationale des associations d'alpinisme
The Union internationale des associations d'alpinisme (UIAA), or International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, is the international federation of climbing and mountaineering organizations, founded at Chamonix, France, in 1932.
Union Internationale des Avocats
Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), International Association of Lawyers: global lawyers' organization founded 8 July 1927 in Belgium, headquartered in Paris, representing over two million lawyers in 110 countries with ECOSOC consultative status.
Union internationale motonautique
Union internationale motonautique (UIM), or International Powerboat Federation: world governing body for powerboating, founded 1922 in Brussels, IOC-recognized since 2010, Monaco-based, 64 member federations, president Raffaele Chiulli.
Union J
Union J: British boy band formed on The X Factor UK series 9 in 2012 from trio Triple J plus George Shelley; finished fourth, RCA Records, two albums (2013, 2014), dissolved 2019, 2022 reunion.
Union Jack
Union Jack, also called the Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom, combining the crosses of St George, St Andrew, and St Patrick; created 1606, current form 1801, both names official since 1902.
Union Jack Classic
Union Jack Classic: annual Big 12 college football series at Wembley Stadium, London, founded by Rhino Marketing's Dubiski and Hensey with Gemini Sports' Yowell; inaugural game September 19, 2026, Arizona State 24, Kansas 17, attendance about 46,500. A regular-season conference game, not an NCAA bowl.
Union Jack dress
The Union Jack dress is the flag mini dress Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) wore at the 1997 BRIT Awards, made by sewing a tea towel onto a Gucci dress; later auctioned for £41,000 and revived by Cavalli in 2007.
Union List
Union List (List I, Seventh Schedule, Constitution of India): enumeration of subjects, originally 97, on which Parliament legislates exclusively under Article 246, including defence, railways, and foreign affairs, linked to residuary power via Article 248 and Entry 97.
Union Movement
Union Movement: British far-right party founded by Oswald Mosley in 1948 as successor to his British Union of Fascists; Europeanist in inspiration, active on Northern Ireland, declined after Mosley's mid-1960s retirement, surviving through its paper Action.
Union of African States
The Union of African States (UAS), first announced as the Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, was a short-lived federation of Ghana, Guinea, and Mali from 1960 to 1963.
Union of Alba Iulia
The Union of Alba Iulia (Unirea de la Alba Iulia) was the union of part of Transylvania's Romanian Orthodox clergy with the Church of Rome in 1697–1700.
Union of Algerian Writers
The Union of Algerian Writers (اتحاد الكتّاب الجزائريّين, French: Union des écrivains algériens) is an Algerian cultural association founded in 1963 that gathers writers across all political and linguistic currents.
Union of Arab Football Associations (الاتحاد العربي لكرة القدم)
Union of Arab Football Associations (الاتحاد العربي لكرة القدم, UAFA): body founded 1974 in Tripoli grouping 22 Arab League member federations except Somalia; runs the Arab Cup (FIFA-run since 2021) and Arab club championship.
Union of Arras
Union of Arras (Unie van Atrecht, Union d'Arras), 6 January 1579 pact of Artois, Hainaut, and Douai reaffirming Catholic faith and loyalty to Philip II, followed by the Treaty of Arras with Parma, unlike the Union of Utrecht.
Union of Bessarabia with Romania
The Union of Bessarabia with Romania was the vote of 27 March 1918 by which Bessarabia's assembly, Sfatul Țării, united the province with the Kingdom of Romania, the first of the unions creating Greater Romania.
Union of Brest
The Union of Brest (unia brzeska) was a 1595–96 church union in which part of the Orthodox Kyivan Metropolitanate accepted papal supremacy while keeping its Eastern rite.
Union of Bukovina with Romania
The Union of Bukovina with Romania was the 28 November 1918 act by which the General Congress in Chernivtsi united the Habsburg crown land with Romania.
Union of Burma
The Union of Burma was the official name of independent Burma, established outside the British Empire on 4 January 1948 under U Nu's parliamentary democracy, and later renamed Myanmar.
Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an American nonprofit science advocacy organization founded at MIT in 1969, working on climate, energy, and nuclear weapons policy.