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Millions ‘a step away from starvation’ in Yemen, females disproportionately affected, warns UN official
Sep 23, 2021 09:44Women and girls are more likely to be hungry, sick or exposed to gender-based violence as a result of the crisis in Yemen, says the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, warning that millions of Yemenis are “a step away from starvation.”
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US judge orders Facebook to release anti-Rohingya account records for genocide case
Sep 23, 2021 09:08A judge in the United States has denounced Facebook for failing to release records of now-closed accounts that contributed to violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, according to a new report.
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US caught between fleeing and facing defeat in Yemen: Gen. Salami
Sep 22, 2021 12:56The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States is stuck between two "evil" choices of staying in Yemen and facing defeat, or leaving the war and be stigmatized for fleeing.
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Thousands flee fighting in Myanmar town near India
Sep 22, 2021 10:08Thousands of people have fled a Myanmar border town amid an escalation of fighting between the military and militia forces in the region.
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Thai protesters demand resignation of PM Prayut on 15th coup anniversary
Sep 19, 2021 11:40Hundreds of Thai protesters have taken to the streets of the capital Bangkok to mark the 15th anniversary of the 2006 military coup that overthrew former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, calling for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down.
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Ex-inmates decry worsening state of New York's 'hellhole' jail
Sep 19, 2021 09:07It's held disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, rapper Tupac Shakur and ex-IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn: New York's notorious Rikers Island prison is now under intense scrutiny over the deaths of at least nine inmates this year.
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Deadly gunfight erupts after Myanmar junta convoy hit by roadside bomb
Sep 19, 2021 07:18A roadside bomb attack has targeted a convoy of Myanmar’s ruling military forces near Yangon, with several people being killed in an ensuing gunfight, the military and media said.
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Environmental threats rapidly becoming 'single greatest challenge to human rights': UN
Sep 16, 2021 15:46The planetary crisis is "impacting a broad range of rights, including the rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, and even life itself," said the U.N.'s top rights expert.
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Zionist regime unveils new armed robot amid outcry over 'death machines'
Sep 16, 2021 15:17The Zionist regime has unveiled a new remote-controlled killer robot at a major weapons fair in the U.K. that human rights advocates are criticizing as an event to sell "death machines" and tools of abuse.
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Iran's first humanitarian flight since Taliban takeover lands in Kabul
Sep 15, 2021 07:44An Iranian plane carrying humanitarian aid has landed in Kabul airport, in the first flight from the Islamic Republic to the Afghan capital since the Taliban takeover of the conflict-ridden country.