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WHO Wuhan probe not looking for COVID ‘guilty’ parties, team says
Dec 24, 2020 02:05The World Health Organization’s international mission to China to investigate the origins of COVID-19 will explore all avenues and is not looking to find “guilty” parties, a team member says.
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Iran rejects renegotiation of JCPOA as ‘absolutely not acceptable’
Dec 23, 2020 03:15Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has rejected as “absolutely not acceptable” any proposal for the renegotiation of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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Palestinian Authority: UN Security Council must end its silence in face of Israeli settlers' attacks
Dec 21, 2020 03:36The Palestinian Authority has denounced repeated attacks against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds, calling on the United Nations Security Council to break its silence in the face of such attacks.
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Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency? Asks UN Chief at climate summit
Dec 18, 2020 16:33World leaders aren't doing enough to address the human-caused climate crisis. That seemed to be the main message of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' speech at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, hosted by the U.N., the United Kingdom, and France in partnership with Chile and Italy to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris agreement.
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Iran committed to peace, stability, development of Afghanistan: Envoy
Dec 18, 2020 11:27Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has reaffirmed Tehran’s commitment to peace and stability in Afghanistan and the development of the neighboring country, saying Iran is prepared to help its Afghan neighbor in that regard.
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Damascus: Security Council tool in hands of Western states to promote their political agendas
Dec 17, 2020 11:50Syria’s deputy foreign minister has strongly criticized certain Western countries for turning the UN Security Council into a tool to serve their political agendas, saying those countries have been seeking to foment the crisis in his country.
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Tehran condemns adoption of anti-Iran resolution at UN
Dec 17, 2020 08:29Iran has condemned a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, saying the document lacks legal status.
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UN chief urges countries to help address economic crisis in war-torn Yemen
Dec 16, 2020 04:00United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on world countries to provide financial assistance to resolve the severe economic crisis in Yemen, which has been under incessant attacks by a Saudi-led coalition over the past several years.
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Johnson and EU vow to go 'extra mile' to thrash out Brexit deal
Dec 15, 2020 18:26Britain and the EU enter the final stretch of the Brexit negotiations with renewed hope of a deal being struck within days after Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen agreed to “go the extra mile” and ordered the resumption of talks in Brussels.
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UN's FAO: Five million Yemenis will likely be 'living just one step away from famine' next year
Dec 14, 2020 12:12The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that 5 million people in war-ravaged Yemen “will likely be living just one step away from famine" in the upcoming year.