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Refugees in Ethiopia's Tigray to run out of food shortly without assistance: UN
Nov 27, 2020 13:29The United Nations (UN) refugee agency has called on the warring sides in Ethiopia's Tigray to allow humanitarian access into the region, warning that the nearly 100,000 Eritrean refugees living in camps there could run out of food next week.
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Adults, children must move more to stay fit in pandemic era: WHO
Nov 27, 2020 08:31All adults should do a minimum of 150 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week, even more vital for well-being and mental health in the COVID-19 era, the World Health Organization (WHO) says in its first guidance in a decade.
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Yemen grants UN access to abandoned fuel tanker near Hudaydah
Nov 26, 2020 16:04Yemen has given the green light for a UN mission to inspect and repair a long-abandoned fuel tanker stranded near the port city of Hudaydah.
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US must withdraw forces from Syria unconditionally, Iran tells UNSC
Nov 26, 2020 04:13The US is plundering the Syrian nation’s wealth and oil resources while supporting terrorist groups in the Arab country, a senior Iranian diplomat told the UN Security Council, calling for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of American terrorist troops from Syria.
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Amnesty, UN, EU warn Ethiopia's warring sides: Do not target civilians
Nov 25, 2020 06:16Amnesty International, the UN envoy for human rights and the European Union's top diplomat have called on the warring sides in Ethiopia's volatile Tigray region to avoid targeting civilians and violating human rights.
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Yemen stresses right to self-defense as Saudi Arabia resorts to UN over Aramco raid
Nov 25, 2020 05:37Yemen says its armed forces reserve the legitimate right to respond to any act of aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition, after Riyadh complained to the UN Security Council over a Yemeni missile attack on an Aramco petroleum products distribution plant in the kingdom’s port city of Jeddah.
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Iran urges UN’s impartiality on Syria
Nov 23, 2020 10:02An Iranian adviser warned against underhand attempts to remove notorious terrorist groups of Syria from the United Nations’ blacklist, calling on the UN to remain even-handed and avoid double standards in the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
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Iranian FM, UN envoy for Syria meet in Tehran
Nov 22, 2020 10:54Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen held a meeting in Tehran for talks on collective efforts to settle the Syrian crisis.
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WHO envoy fears third COVID wave, calls Europe response 'incomplete'
Nov 22, 2020 07:30A World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy has predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.
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Refugee settlement plunging in 2020: UN
Nov 19, 2020 14:30The United Nations warned Thursday that 2020 could witness the fewest resettled refugees in almost two decades, in part due to the global pandemic.