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UN warns acute funding shortages threaten flow of humanitarian aid to Yemenis
Feb 26, 2022 12:43The United Nations has warned that severe funding shortages pose a threat to the flow of humanitarian assistance to Yemen, saying food rations have already been cut by half for eight million people in the impoverished country.
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UN Security Council fails to adopt anti-Russia resolution
Feb 26, 2022 03:38The United Nations Security Council has failed to adopt an anti-Russia resolution aimed at “deploring” Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine.
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President Raeisi: Expansion of NATO serious threat against security of independent countries
Feb 25, 2022 04:04President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) threatens stability and security of independent countries.
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UN expert urges Sudan forces to stop firing live ammunition, teargas at anti-coup protesters
Feb 25, 2022 02:17A United Nations expert has called on Sudan's military to stop using "excessive force" against anti-coup protesters as the crackdown has so far claimed dozens of lives across the African country.
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UN special envoy expresses concern over persisting violence against Palestinians in occupied territories
Feb 24, 2022 14:12The UN special coordinator for the West Asia peace process has expressed concern over the persisting violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories, saying the destabilizing deterioration of the situation in the absence of political solutions would “reset the trajectory.”
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Gambia urges UN top court to reject Myanmar’s bid to end Rohingya genocide case
Feb 24, 2022 10:49Lawyers from Gambia have urged the United Nations’ top court to reject Myanmar’s legal attempt to end a case of genocide by the Southeast Asian country against Rohingya Muslims, after the Buddhist nation tried to get the case dismissed.
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Russia says 'open to diplomacy' over Ukraine, defends recognition of breakaway regions
Feb 22, 2022 09:16Russian envoy to the United Nations has reaffirmed Moscow’s “openness to diplomacy”, noting that President Vladimir Putin’s move to declare two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine independent was aimed at foiling the new "Ukrainian military adventure".
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Forced expulsion of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah violates international law: UN
Feb 20, 2022 14:11The United Nations has denounced Israeli forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of al-Quds, slamming the move as a “violation of international law”.
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UN food agency says 95% of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat
Feb 20, 2022 05:49The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) says 95 percent of people in Afghanistan “do not have enough to eat,” as the United States has frozen Afghan government assets worth billions of dollars and international sanctions against the ruling Taliban have plunged the Asian country into a full-blown economic crisis.
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Iran FM warns of Afghan refugee crisis, Yemen disaster in meeting with UN chief
Feb 19, 2022 09:56Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned of the burden of a new wave of refugees from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of the Central Asian country and also stated that the ongoing Yemen crisis has reached a critical point that requires concerted international efforts.