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UN calls on Israel to provide Palestinians with coronavirus vaccines
Jan 27, 2021 04:30The United Nations has called on the Israeli regime to help ensure Palestinians will receive COVID-19 vaccinations amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Violence in Sudan’s Darfur killed 250, displaced 100,000: UN
Jan 24, 2021 14:25The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed alarm over tribal violence in Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region, saying the conflict has killed at least 250 people and displaced more than 100,000 others.
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Yemen warring sides kick-start prisoner swap talks in Jordan: UN
Jan 24, 2021 14:13Fresh talks between delegations from Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and Saudi-backed former government have begun over exchange of hundreds of more prisoners, as part of steps taken to revive stalled UN-brokered peace negotiations, the United Nations says.
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US blocking Iran’s payment of UN membership dues: Zarif
Jan 22, 2021 10:25Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday said the government has allocated funds for the payment of its dues to the UN, but Washington is preventing Tehran from paying its contributions.
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Warning world is on 'brink of a catastrophic moral failure,' WHO chief denounces vaccine-hoarding by rich nations
Jan 21, 2021 17:32World Health Organization has criticized wealthy countries and pharmaceutical companies for pursuing their own coronavirus vaccine arrangements, even though such a nationalistic and competitive approach to inoculation threatens to magnify deadly global inequalities while prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic crisis.
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US must immediately remove 'inhumane, unlawful' bans against Syrians: Iran
Jan 21, 2021 06:54Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has slammed the US sanctions against the Syrian nation as “political, unlawful, and inhumane”, calling for the immediate removal of those bans.
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Shipwreck off Libya leaves over 40 refugees dead: UN
Jan 21, 2021 02:12At least 43 migrants from West Africa perished in the first major shipwreck off the Libyan coast this year, the United Nations said Wednesday, adding that 10 people were rescued.
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US decision to sanction Yemen’s Ansarullah badge of pride for movement: Spokesman
Jan 20, 2021 09:03Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has slammed a recent decision by the United States to designate the popular group as “terrorist” and impose illegal sanctions on some of its leaders, saying the move is in fact a “badge of honor” for the movement.
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Sudan deploys troops to Darfur to contain tribal violence
Jan 20, 2021 08:27Sudan's transitional government has deployed military units to the conflict-ridden Darfur region in an attempt to help restore calm there following three days of tribal violence.
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Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine constitute intl. law violation: UN chief
Jan 20, 2021 04:16UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the Israeli regime’s recent plan to construct hundreds of new settler units in the occupied West Bank, saying such structures are considered illegal under international law.