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UN chief Antonio Guterres sworn in for second term, vows to learn from pandemic
Jun 19, 2021 00:41UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was sworn in Friday for a second term as head of the world body, promising to draw on the lessons of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
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World's most powerful imprison Julian Assange for his virtues—not his vices
Jun 15, 2021 13:39They came after Julian because he exposed the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians; because he exposed the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 and 89, at Guantánamo; because he exposed that Hillary Clinton in 2009 ordered US diplomats to spy on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and other U.N. representatives from China, France, Russia, and the UK.
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North Korea: World should not tolerate Zionist entity’s reckless terrorism
Jun 09, 2021 06:51North Korea has denounced the latest Zionist entity’s military aggression on the besieged Gaza strip, stating that Tel Aviv is massacring children and that the international community should not tolerate Israel's reckless sponsorship of terrorism.
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Some 350,000 people in famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray: UN document
Jun 10, 2021 06:48An analysis by a high-level UN-led committee has estimated that some 350,000 people are in famine conditions in Ethiopia's restive region of Tigray, as a result of a months-long armed conflict that triggered a refugee crisis and a humanitarian disaster there.
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Refugees insist humanitarian organization UNHCR disregards their humanity
Jun 09, 2021 15:38There is clearly a global pattern that connects UNHCR involvement to unrest in refugee camps. The question is, why has this pattern been ignored for more than a decade?
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Zarif defends Iran’s voting rights as Guterres set to get reelected as UN chief
Jun 09, 2021 09:55Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier this month, criticizing the United Nations’ decision to deprive Iran of its voting rights.
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Malaysian Muslim group slams UN’s double standards on Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes
Jun 09, 2021 02:48A Malaysian Muslim group has lashed out at the United Nations for its double standards concerning Zionist entity’s demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
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Security Council votes to reelect Guterres as UN chief for second term
Jun 09, 2021 00:00The United Nations Security Council has voted to reelect Antonio Guterres as the UN secretary general, assuring a second term for the Portuguese statesman that will keep him in office until 2027.
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In letter to UN, Eritrea blames US for destabilizing Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Jun 08, 2021 15:12Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh has blamed the United States for “stoking further conflict and destabilization” in Ethiopia’s Tigray through interference and intimidation in the northern region.
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Thousands fled violence after Burkina Faso massacre: UN
Jun 08, 2021 12:32More than 3,300 people have fled their homes in a village in northern Burkina Faso following the country's worst massacre in six years, the United Nations said.