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World Court launches genocide hearings against Myanmar
Dec 10, 2019 11:32The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has launched genocide hearings against Myanmar, as the first major legal attempt to bring the country to justice over horrific atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims.
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Unidentified armed men attack US military base in eastern Syria
Dec 06, 2019 14:43A group of unknown gunmen has reportedly attacked a US military base inside an oil field in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, prompting American forces at the site to respond.
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HOPE initiative aimed at reducing regional tensions: Senior diplomat
Dec 05, 2019 14:56Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says Tehran’s proposed plan for ensuring security in the Persian Gulf aims to reduce tensions in the strategic region.
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EU3’s UN letter on Iran missiles aims to hide their ‘miserable incompetence’: Zarif
Dec 05, 2019 10:54Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a letter written to the UN chief by three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is aimed at hiding their “miserable incompetence” in fulfilling their commitments under the accord.
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North Korea warns against UN human rights meeting
Dec 05, 2019 10:51North Korea has warned the United States against holding any United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the country’s human rights situation.
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War against nature must stop: UN chief
Dec 01, 2019 14:05The devastating impact of global warming that threatens humanity is a pushback from nature under assault, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Sunday ahead of a key climate conference.
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UN refugee chief criticises Europe's lack of support for unaccompanied children
Nov 29, 2019 06:53The United Nations senior refugee official says he is 'worried about Europe' if it 'does not feel that it has to share responsibility on children that have no homes, no families and no future'.
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Four Ebola responders killed in troubled eastern DR Congo
Nov 28, 2019 15:44Four Ebola workers in eastern DR Congo were killed and five injured, adding to the toll of people who have died fighting the nearly 16-month-old epidemic, the UN said Thursday.
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UN, Iraq work to prosecute Daesh for genocide
Nov 27, 2019 13:40Members of the United Nations Security Council sat in silence listening to the harrowing account of Kachi Amo Saloh, as he explained how his entire family was killed before his eyes by Daesh terrorists in Iraq five years ago.
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Psychoactive drugs, bane of the modern world
Nov 22, 2019 14:17According to the latest report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (INODC), in 2009, a total of 166 “New Psychoactive Substances” (NPS) have been used in different world countries while in the years 2019 this number has reached 803, showing 703 percent increase during 10 year span. NPS are a range of drugs that have been designed to mimic established illicit drugs, such as cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and LSD.