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Yemen grants UN access to abandoned fuel tanker near Hudaydah
Nov 26, 2020 16:04Yemen has given the green light for a UN mission to inspect and repair a long-abandoned fuel tanker stranded near the port city of Hudaydah.
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US must withdraw forces from Syria unconditionally, Iran tells UNSC
Nov 26, 2020 04:13The US is plundering the Syrian nation’s wealth and oil resources while supporting terrorist groups in the Arab country, a senior Iranian diplomat told the UN Security Council, calling for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of American terrorist troops from Syria.
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Is UN condemnation enough for Zionist regime?
Nov 25, 2020 17:50The world body has to stop releasing statement after statement condemning the Israeli regime and its apartheid policies, and instead take decisive actions to hold the usurper regime and its Western supporters to account. This has to include an international legal push and resolution that forces the Israeli regime and its Western allies to end the occupation of Palestine and allow people there, including Jews, Christians and Muslims, decide their future government through a national referendum.
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Amnesty, UN, EU warn Ethiopia's warring sides: Do not target civilians
Nov 25, 2020 06:16Amnesty International, the UN envoy for human rights and the European Union's top diplomat have called on the warring sides in Ethiopia's volatile Tigray region to avoid targeting civilians and violating human rights.
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Yemen stresses right to self-defense as Saudi Arabia resorts to UN over Aramco raid
Nov 25, 2020 05:37Yemen says its armed forces reserve the legitimate right to respond to any act of aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition, after Riyadh complained to the UN Security Council over a Yemeni missile attack on an Aramco petroleum products distribution plant in the kingdom’s port city of Jeddah.
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Iran urges UN’s impartiality on Syria
Nov 23, 2020 10:02An Iranian adviser warned against underhand attempts to remove notorious terrorist groups of Syria from the United Nations’ blacklist, calling on the UN to remain even-handed and avoid double standards in the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
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Iranian FM, UN envoy for Syria meet in Tehran
Nov 22, 2020 10:54Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen held a meeting in Tehran for talks on collective efforts to settle the Syrian crisis.
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WHO envoy fears third COVID wave, calls Europe response 'incomplete'
Nov 22, 2020 07:30A World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy has predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.
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Refugee settlement plunging in 2020: UN
Nov 19, 2020 14:30The United Nations warned Thursday that 2020 could witness the fewest resettled refugees in almost two decades, in part due to the global pandemic.
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Iran dismisses Canadian-drafted resolution on its human rights situation
Nov 19, 2020 06:52Iran has condemned a UN resolution, drafted and proposed by Canada, as a rehash of “groundless” claims about the Islamic Republic’s human rights situation, saying it instead proves the “hypocrisy” of the “notorious” group of countries that voted for it.