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UN chief pushes for constructive Western Sahara talks
Dec 05, 2018 11:24UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all parties meeting to discuss the long-running Western Sahara dispute this week in Geneva to be constructive and avoid imposing preconditions for formal talks.
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Yemen's Ansarullah, Saudi-led coalition reach prisoner exchange deal
Dec 04, 2018 09:04An Ansarullah movement’s official says the Saudi-led coalition and militants fighting on its behalf in Yemen have signed a UN-brokered deal for exchanging prisoners with the Ansarullah movement, prior to the peace negotiations due to be launched in Sweden.
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World ‘way off course’, UN warns at crunch climate summit
Dec 03, 2018 13:00The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations has warned as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming.
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UN aid chief calls for end to Saudi war on Yemen
Nov 29, 2018 14:25The UN aid chief has appealed for a halt to fighting in Yemen amid intense diplomacy to end the ongoing Saudi aggression that has pushed millions to the brink of famine.
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Germany calls on France to give UN seat to EU
Nov 28, 2018 16:54German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has proposed that France give up its permanent seat on the UN Security Council and turn it into an EU seat to allow the bloc to speak with one voice on the global stage.
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Rohingya say Bangladesh, aid agencies must stop collecting information for Myanmar
Nov 26, 2018 14:18Rohingya refugees in southeast Bangladesh have staged a massive protest and strike, demanding that officials and aid agencies stop sharing their family information with Myanmar’s government.
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Saudi-led attacks on Yemen’s Hudaydah will destroy UN peace efforts: Ansarullah
Nov 26, 2018 04:05The spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement says the uptick in Saudi-led airstrikes on the strategic port city of Hudaydah will eventually frustrate efforts by United Nations Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to rekindle peace talks in Sweden next month.
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Iran once again asks to participate in humanitarian activities in Yemen
Nov 24, 2018 01:57The secretary general of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) expressed deep concern over the ongoing human tragedy caused by the Saudi-led war on Yemen and once again voiced the country’s readiness to send humanitarian assistance to the impoverished country.
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Ansarullah to discuss giving UN ‘leading role’ in Hudaydah port: UN envoy
Nov 23, 2018 17:05Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement has agreed to negotiate handing the United Nations a “leading UN role” in managing the vital Hudaydah port-city, according to UN envoy Martin Griffiths.
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UN: Zionist entity has escalated violations of Lebanon airspace
Nov 23, 2018 08:11The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon says the illegal Zionist entity has sharply increased its almost daily aerial violations in Lebanese airspace, urging the regime to halt them.