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Venezuela reaches deal with UN to buy food, medicine with gold
May 28, 2020 04:40Venezuela has reached a deal with the United Nations to purchase food and medicine with gold amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to its central bank governor.
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UN chief denounces continued fighting despite previous call for coronavirus ceasefire
May 28, 2020 00:57United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has regretted the failure to heed his call for a global ceasefire aimed to focus efforts on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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UN says Yemen’s health system ‘has in effect collapsed’ as COVID-19 spreads
May 22, 2020 12:11The United Nations warns that urgent funding is needed to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak in Yemen, where the healthcare system has collapsed as a result of the Saudi-led coalition’s devastating campaign.
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Israel must 'abandon threats of annexation': UN envoy
May 21, 2020 02:27The United Nations' special envoy for West Asia has called on Israel to abandon plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, joining a growing international chorus of opposition.
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Threatening Iranian tankers by US amounts to piracy, jeopardizes intl. peace: Zarif
May 17, 2020 15:05Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has issued stern warning against the US provocative acts through dispatching its naval forces to the Caribbean Sea with the goal of disrupting the course of Iranian tankers carrying fuel for Venezuela.
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Warring parties in Yemen make ‘significant progress’ on ceasefire agreement: UN envoy
May 15, 2020 04:06United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths says the warring parties in the impoverished Arab country have made “significant progress” toward agreement on a nationwide ceasefire.
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Yemen urges UN to pressure Saudi-led coalition over offloading stranded oil tanker
May 11, 2020 01:27The Yemeni minister of oil and minerals has called upon the United Nations to pressure the Saudi-led coalition involved in a campaign against his country into allowing the offloading of crude oil from a tanker afloat off the coast of Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah.
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Swiss humanitarian channel not enough to meet Iran’s needs: Takht Ravanchi
May 10, 2020 12:11Iran’s permanent Ambassador to the United Nations says the trade channel launched by a Swiss bank to help the Islamic Republic use its overseas funds to procure food and medicine for its people amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic has so far failed to meet the country’s needs.
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Unilateral sanctions hamper Syria’s fight against coronavirus pandemic: UN envoy
May 10, 2020 11:09Unilateral sanctions hamper Syria’s fight against coronavirus pandemic: UN envoy
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US ‘bullying’ jeopardizes UN credibility: Iran’s Zarif
May 10, 2020 04:12Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that Washington’s “lawless bullying” against other countries will put the UN credibility at risk.