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India accounts for half of last week's newly confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide: WHO
May 14, 2021 00:02India accounted for 50 percent of the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and 30 percent of related deaths worldwide over the past week, while the situation in its neighboring countries also raised grave international concerns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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UN: Daesh committed genocide against Iraq's Izadis
May 11, 2021 09:33A UN team investigating Daesh atrocities in Iraq says it has established evidence that the crimes committed by the terrorist group against Izadis amounted to “genocide”.
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UN voices concern over imminent eviction of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah
May 07, 2021 00:21The United Nations has expressed concern over the imminent eviction of dozens of Palestinians by the Zionist regime from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in al-Quds.
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Unilateral coercive measures impede COVID fight, endanger people’s health: Iran envoy tells UN
May 06, 2021 05:02An Iranian representative to the United Nations has warned that sanctions against developing countries target ordinary people and pose a serious obstacle to the fight against the deadly COVID-19 disease, calling on the world body to take swift action to help end the unlawful and illegitimate restrictions.
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Gangs tied to Western mafia trafficking Yemeni kids to PG states: Houthi
Apr 29, 2021 05:33The leader of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement says security services have identified child trafficking gangs in the country, where the world’s worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding amid a bloody Saudi-led campaign of military aggression.
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US, Saudi Arabia, UAE intentionally violate ceasefire agreement in Hudaydah: Yemeni FM
Apr 27, 2021 06:45Yemen’s Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah said the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deliberately ignore the ceasefire agreement reached between the warring Yemeni sides during a round of UN-sponsored negotiations in Sweden in December 2018, stressing that peace needs effective confidence-building measures so it can prevail.
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With rich states hoarding, WHO urges African nations to use expired vaccines
Apr 23, 2021 05:59The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised African countries to retain Covid-19 vaccines that have reached the end of their expiry date and wait for further instructions.
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Iran at UN: Unilateral coercive measures imperil food security in targeted states
Apr 22, 2021 01:11Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi says unilateral coercive measures, especially at a time when the world is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, pose a threat to food security in the targeted countries, stressing the necessity of their swift and complete removal.
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UN, partners demand withdrawal of foreign forces from Libya
Apr 21, 2021 06:43A broad grouping of countries and organizations has demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all foreign forces from Libya.
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UN rights experts demand release of Dubai ruler's missing daughter Princess Latifa
Apr 21, 2021 02:34UN experts have called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide information about a daughter of Dubai’s ruler and release her, more than two months after she said she was being held against her will at a barricaded villa in the Persian Gulf country.