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US must ‘respond positively’ to UN call to release Afghan funds: Taliban
Jan 14, 2022 14:07The Taliban government has called on the United States to release billions of dollars of Afghanistan’s frozen assets to avoid a worsening humanitarian crisis after the 20-year invasion of the war-ravaged country by US-led forces.
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UN envoy urges inclusive ASEAN approach to Myanmar crisis
Jan 13, 2022 08:47The United Nations (UN) special envoy to Myanmar has called on Southeast Asian nations to support international efforts to engage all sides to the conflict in Myanmar in order to find a peaceful solution to the escalating violence in the country.
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Iran denounces UN voting right suspension, slams US sanctions for failure to pay membership dues
Jan 13, 2022 03:00The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly denounces suspension of its right to vote at the United Nations, stressing that the United States' cruel sanctions have brought about the situation.
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Yemen: Saudi attacks on water facilities in Sa’ada ‘war crime’ amid severe shortages
Jan 12, 2022 14:51Yemeni officials have denounced as war crime the latest Saudi airstrikes that targeted water facilities providing water for tens of thousands of people in Sa’ada Province.
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Iran calls on US to repatriate all Achaemenid-era tablets
Jan 12, 2022 08:33Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations says the United States must return the country’s Achaemenid-era clay tablets without any exceptions and excuses.
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UN launches $5bn aid appeal for Afghanistan amid worsening crisis
Jan 11, 2022 08:24The United Nations (UN) has announced the launch of a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan to avert a major humanitarian crisis in the South Asian country.
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Calling Omicron 'mild' a mistake, warns WHO
Jan 07, 2022 03:33The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization insisted Thursday.
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Syrian envoy to UN says Western states fabricate lies on Syria’s cooperation with OPCW
Jan 06, 2022 12:35Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh has affirmed Damascus’ condemnation of the use of chemical weapons, anywhere, anytime by anyone and under any circumstances, saying Western states fabricate lies on his country's cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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Saudi-led coalition prevents another fuel ship heading for Hudaidah from docking at Yemen
Jan 05, 2022 13:11The Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen has banned a new ship carrying fuel and heading for the strategic port city of Hudaidah from docking at Yemen, amid crippling fuel shortage in the country.
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China slams Gen. Soleimani’s assassination as another US ‘war crime’
Jan 04, 2022 14:20China has slammed the 2020 assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as yet another “war crime” committed by the United States.