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UN appeals to EU states to accept refugees stranded on Italian Coast Guard ship
Aug 25, 2018 12:12The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged EU countries to take responsibility for over 150 refugees, mostly from Eritrea, who have been stranded on an Italian Coast Guard vessel for several days.
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UN calls for 'impartial, prompt' probe into attacks targeting Yemeni civilians
Aug 25, 2018 12:10United Nations officials have condemned two recent Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen that killed at least 26 children, renewing calls for “an impartial, independent and prompt investigation” into attacks targeting civilians in the crisis-hit Arab country.
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UNICEF condemns latest Saudi-led airstrike on Yemeni children
Aug 25, 2018 02:51The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has denounced a recent Saudi deadly airstrike in Yemen’s Hudaydah province that killed over two dozen children.
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UN invites Iran, Russia, Turkey to Syria talks in Geneva next month
Aug 25, 2018 00:36United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited Iran, Russia and Turkey to talks due to be held in Geneva next month on forming Syria's Constitutional Committee, a UN spokeswoman says.
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Daesh attack leaves four Libyan soldiers dead
Aug 24, 2018 00:09An attack on a checkpoint between the Libyan capital and the town of Zliten killed four soldiers of the UN-backed unity government on Thursday, the town's mayor said.
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UNICEF warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children
Aug 23, 2018 09:16The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim children lack proper education both in Myanmar and border camps in Bangladesh, warning that the Myanmarese kids could become “a lost generation.”
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Former UN chief Kofi Annan dead at 80
Aug 18, 2018 08:50Former UN chief Kofi Annan dead at 80
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Yemen: United Nations Lise Grande visits hospital in Sa’ada (Video)
Aug 16, 2018 13:54United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen Lise Grande visited a hospital in Sa’ada, where dozens of the wounded children were being treated.
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UN experts call for release of top Bahraini campaigner Nabeel Rajab
Aug 16, 2018 13:41UN human rights experts say Bahrain's detention of prominent opposition figure and leading pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab is unlawful and violates his right to freedom of expression.
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Iran, Russia and Turkey keen to avoid battle in Syria's Idlib: UN
Aug 09, 2018 14:56A UN official says Iran, Russia and Turkey have assured that they would do their utmost to avoid a battle for the recapture of Idlib in northwestern Syria, which is being held by foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists.