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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.
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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.