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UN says level of greenhouse gases hit new high
Nov 22, 2018 14:24The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN says, warning that the time to act was running out.
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UN draft resolution calls for Yemen truce, two weeks to unblock aid shipments
Nov 19, 2018 16:42A United Nations draft resolution has called for an immediate truce in Hudaydah, Yemen’s strategic port and its only conduit to the outside world, setting a two-week deadline for removing all barriers to humanitarian aid for the impoverished state.
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UN calls for calm after Myanmar police shoot, wound Rohingya Muslims
Nov 19, 2018 12:55The United Nations has called for calm after several members of persecuted Rohingya Muslims were shot and wounded at a camp in the western state of Rakhine.
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UN official, Iranian diplomat hold talks in Tehran
Nov 19, 2018 04:59A senior UN official for humanitarian affairs met with an Iranian foreign minister special assistant about the conflicts in the Middle East and ways to help the war-hit people of Yemen in particular.
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UK austerity program inflicted ‘great misery’ on Britons: UN
Nov 17, 2018 14:14The United Nations has condemned the British government's austerity measures in a damning report, saying the “mean-spirited, and often callous” program has inflicted ‘great misery’ on millions of Britons.
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Iran urges UN to take stance against US violations
Nov 17, 2018 03:37Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, has called on the world body to take an official stance against America's evasion of the international law.
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In first, US endorses Israeli occupation of Golan, votes against 9 anti-Israel resolutions
Nov 17, 2018 02:32The US has, for the first time, endorsed the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights by voting against an annual UN resolution that condemned the occupation and was unanimously approved along with several other resolutions against Tel Aviv.
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Iran blasts using human rights mechanisms as tool
Nov 16, 2018 09:13Iran strongly condemns using human rights resolutions and mechanisms as a tool after a UN panel adopts one such resolution targeting the Islamic Republic.
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UN resolution on Iran’s human rights ‘political charade’
Nov 16, 2018 02:38Iran has condemned a United Nations resolution that accuses it of human rights violations, stressing that the measure's sponsors are playing a "political charade."
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Rights groups warn against repatriation of Rohingya Muslims
Nov 15, 2018 12:01Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International have called on Bangladesh and Myanmar to drop plans for the repatriation of Rohingya Muslims.