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Election-related violence killed dozens in Afghanistan: UN
Oct 15, 2019 15:52A United Nations (UN) report says dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in violence related to Afghanistan’s recent presidential election.
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Prolonged Saudi war to make Yemen world's poorest country: UN
Oct 10, 2019 13:11A new UN report projects that Yemen is on course to become the world's poorest country if Saudi Arabia's aggression against the impoverished nation continues.
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What a U.N. report on war crimes in Yemen means for U.S.-Saudi weapon sales
Oct 09, 2019 13:42Without the least doubt, Washington is a comrade in the Riyadh regime’s state terrorism against the people of Yemen through supply of state-of-the-art military technology that over the past four-and-a-half years killed over a hundred thousand men, women, and children, in addition to plunging the country in famine and epidemics.
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UN urged to condemn US sanctions on Iranian space bodies
Oct 09, 2019 13:25Iran has submitted a note of protest to the United Nations space agency demanding the body to condemn US sanctions targeting three Iranian space institutions.
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UN in the red, staff salaries at risk
Oct 09, 2019 06:05The United Nations (UN) has an overall annual operating budget of several billion dollars, covering everything from humanitarian work to disarmament, but right now, it's just trying to make sure its employees get paid after this month.
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Why UN doesn’t like US
Oct 04, 2019 04:49US President Donald Trump's ‘America First’ concept contradicts the values of the United Nations, denying the broad consensus of the international community to pursue common development through cooperation and to solve global problems through shared responsibility.
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UN rapporteurs urged to uncover Israeli crimes against Palestinians
Oct 04, 2019 03:39Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Malki has called upon United Nations special rapporteurs to expose Israeli crimes committed against Palestinians especially in the wake of the severe torture of prisoner Samer al-Arbeed, who has been taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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U.N. report paints a harrowing portrait of the planet's future
Oct 02, 2019 07:36Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) experts found that the global sea level rose about 15 centimeters during the 20th century and has accelerated in recent decades because of ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, melting glaciers, and ocean thermal expansion.
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UN investigators offer more details of Khashoggi’s murder
Oct 02, 2019 04:56The Saudi government hitmen who killed dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi are heard joking about dismembering human bodies on secret tapes that United Nations (UN) investigators have listened to.
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US blocks Zarif from visiting ill colleague at New York hospital
Sep 28, 2019 10:46The United States has rejected a request by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi, who is being treated for cancer in a hospital in New York.