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China calls on US to stop spreading ‘fake info’ about Beijing
Jan 05, 2021 08:47China has dismissed US accusations of undermining international rule of law, calling on Washington to stop manufacturing fake information about Beijing and return to rationality and reason.
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Syria: UN expert’s remarks necessitate removal of cruel US sanctions
Jan 03, 2021 13:59Syria has slammed the United States for imposing unilateral sanctions on Damascus, after a UN special rapporteur called on Washington to remove restrictive measures against the war-torn country.
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Iran warns of ‘US military adventurism’ in Persian Gulf in letter to UN Security Council
Jan 01, 2021 06:46Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York has warned against the United States’ “military adventurism” and recent provocative moves in the Persian Gulf region, at a time that the administration of lame duck US President Donald Trump nears its final days.
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Syria urges UNSC to take firm action against Israeli acts of aggression
Dec 31, 2020 05:33In the wake of a new Israeli aerial assault, Syria has called on the United Nations Security Council to assume its responsibility and take “firm and immediate” action to end such acts of aggression by the Tel Aviv regime.
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Beijing tightens coronavirus restrictions as new cases detected
Dec 27, 2020 12:51China has tightened restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, urging residents not to leave cities and villages during the holiday period.
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Saudi-led aggression kills over 3,800 Yemeni children: Health minister
Dec 24, 2020 13:26The Yemeni minister of health says the military onslaught by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies has claimed the lives of over 3,800 children in the crisis-hit Arab country, while more than 400,000 minors are acutely malnourished and require urgent care.
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UN 'concerned' over Trump’s pardons for guards who massacred Iraqi civilians
Dec 24, 2020 09:49The UN Human Rights Office has voiced deep concern over US President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon four former American security contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the capital Baghdad in 2007.
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WHO Wuhan probe not looking for COVID ‘guilty’ parties, team says
Dec 24, 2020 02:05The World Health Organization’s international mission to China to investigate the origins of COVID-19 will explore all avenues and is not looking to find “guilty” parties, a team member says.
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Iran rejects renegotiation of JCPOA as ‘absolutely not acceptable’
Dec 23, 2020 03:15Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has rejected as “absolutely not acceptable” any proposal for the renegotiation of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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Palestinian Authority: UN Security Council must end its silence in face of Israeli settlers' attacks
Dec 21, 2020 03:36The Palestinian Authority has denounced repeated attacks against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds, calling on the United Nations Security Council to break its silence in the face of such attacks.