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UN Security Council calls for release of detainees in coup-hit Myanmar
Feb 05, 2021 10:48The United Nations Security Council has expressed “deep concern” by the recent military coup in Myanmar, calling for the “release of all detainees”, including the Southeast Asian country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Syria demands Security Council take firm measures against Israeli acts of aggression
Feb 04, 2021 13:22Syria has once again called on the United Nations Security Council to assume its responsibilities within the framework of the UN Charter, and to adopt prompt and practical measures to stop illegal Zionist entity’s act of aggression against Syria.
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Iran hails UN court’s rebuff of US objections in sanctions case
Feb 03, 2021 15:53Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hails an interim ruling by the United Nations’ top court rebuffing Washington’s claim that the tribunal lacks jurisdiction to judge a lawsuit filed by Tehran against illegal US sanctions.
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UN chief says ‘a lot of work’ needs to be done on JCPOA revival, no ‘immediate’ solution in sight
Jan 29, 2021 14:55United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he does not expect an "immediate" revival of a 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement signed between Iran and world powers that the US unilaterally left three years later.
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Amnesty International urges EU to follow Biden’s UAE, Saudi weapons freeze
Jan 29, 2021 09:11Amnesty International has welcomed the United States decision to freeze arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), calling on European countries to follow suit and end weapons exports to the two countries involved in the devastating war on Yemen.
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UN labor agency: Pandemic job losses four times higher than after 2009 financial collapse
Jan 29, 2021 05:54Surveying the widespread and devastating wreckage the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the world economy over the past nine months, the United Nations' labor agency estimated recently that the Covid-19 crisis caused a loss of 8.8% of global working hours in 2020—the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs.
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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.