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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.
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North Korea rejects UN rights resolution
Nov 17, 2019 10:21North Korea has dismissed a United Nations (UN) resolution on the country’s human rights record as a scheme orchestrated by the United States to undermine Pyongyang.
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BRICS members call for reform in UN, IMF, and WTO amid rising protectionism in the West
Nov 16, 2019 06:22Members of the international group of emerging nations, BRICS, have called for comprehensive reforms in the United Nations as well as global trade and monitory bodies, in the face of rising protectionism and unilateralism.
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UN: Daesh militants’ home states must take them back
Nov 12, 2019 14:29UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the home countries of Daesh terrorists captured in Iraq and Syria must take back their terrorist nationals.
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UN finds: Morsi's death ‘state-sanctioned arbitrary killing’
Nov 09, 2019 06:09A panel of UN experts have found that the detention conditions of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi may have directly led to his death in June.