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Venezuela reaches deal with UN to buy food, medicine with gold
May 28, 2020 04:40Venezuela has reached a deal with the United Nations to purchase food and medicine with gold amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to its central bank governor.
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UN chief denounces continued fighting despite previous call for coronavirus ceasefire
May 28, 2020 00:57United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has regretted the failure to heed his call for a global ceasefire aimed to focus efforts on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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UN says Yemen’s health system ‘has in effect collapsed’ as COVID-19 spreads
May 22, 2020 12:11The United Nations warns that urgent funding is needed to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak in Yemen, where the healthcare system has collapsed as a result of the Saudi-led coalition’s devastating campaign.
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Israel must 'abandon threats of annexation': UN envoy
May 21, 2020 02:27The United Nations' special envoy for West Asia has called on Israel to abandon plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, joining a growing international chorus of opposition.
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US blocks UN global ceasefire resolution, objecting to indirect reference to World Health Organization
May 18, 2020 10:47International diplomats were stunned and frustrated after the U.S. again blocked a United Nations resolution to call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. objected to any mention of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the resolution.
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Threatening Iranian tankers by US amounts to piracy, jeopardizes intl. peace: Zarif
May 17, 2020 15:05Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has issued stern warning against the US provocative acts through dispatching its naval forces to the Caribbean Sea with the goal of disrupting the course of Iranian tankers carrying fuel for Venezuela.
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Warring parties in Yemen make ‘significant progress’ on ceasefire agreement: UN envoy
May 15, 2020 04:06United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths says the warring parties in the impoverished Arab country have made “significant progress” toward agreement on a nationwide ceasefire.
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UN must stop illegal settlements in Palestine
May 11, 2020 12:43Several options are open to the UN to pressure the Zionist regime into ditching new settlement plans though. The onus must be on boycotts and sanctions. UN member states individually and collectively express their frustration with Israel’s policy of occupation, but so far that frustration has not coalesced into a determination to take action like for example economic sanctions.
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Yemen urges UN to pressure Saudi-led coalition over offloading stranded oil tanker
May 11, 2020 01:27The Yemeni minister of oil and minerals has called upon the United Nations to pressure the Saudi-led coalition involved in a campaign against his country into allowing the offloading of crude oil from a tanker afloat off the coast of Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah.
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Swiss humanitarian channel not enough to meet Iran’s needs: Takht Ravanchi
May 10, 2020 12:11Iran’s permanent Ambassador to the United Nations says the trade channel launched by a Swiss bank to help the Islamic Republic use its overseas funds to procure food and medicine for its people amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic has so far failed to meet the country’s needs.