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UN accuses Libyan guards of shooting refugees fleeing Tripoli airstrikes
Jul 05, 2019 07:12“There are reports that following the first impact, some refugees and migrants were fired upon by guards as they tried to escape,” said the OCHA report, which came a day after UN authorities emphasized that the airstrikes -- by renegade Libyan General Khalifa Haftar – may have constituted a war crime.
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UN envoy slams EU blindness to plight of migrants in Libya after strikes on detention center
Jul 04, 2019 14:58The UN has lambasted the EU's “blindness” on the plight of refugees in Libya, urging a rethink of returning Europe-bound migrants intercepted at the Mediterranean to the North African country.
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UN: Army, Buddhists committing war crimes in western Myanmar
Jul 03, 2019 12:11United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur to Myanmar says its security forces and rebels are committing human rights violations against civilians in the country’s west that may amount to new war crimes.
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UN urges Libya to evacuate migrant detention centers after deadly strike
Jul 03, 2019 10:37The United Nations Refugee Agency on Wednesday called for the evacuation of migrant detention centers in Libya and a full investigation into an airstrike that killed at least 44 people and wounded more than 130.
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Civilians brutally targeted in South Sudan violence, says UN
Jul 03, 2019 10:34The United Nations said on Wednesday that conflict had intensified in a region of South Sudan since a peace deal was signed, with hundreds of civilians raped or murdered by warring factions.
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UN expert urges ban on spy tech sales to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi's murder
Jul 03, 2019 03:15A UN expert, who recently concluded a probe into the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, has called for sanctions on surveillance technology sales to Riyadh, amid reports that the regime has been using such spyware to keep track of the dissidents living abroad.
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MBS put in corner by UN report on Khashoggi murder
Jul 01, 2019 16:28The murderous Saud Heir Apparent, Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), who is responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred thousand Yemeni men, women and children over the past four-and-a-half years, has been identified as the chief culprit in the brutal killing of a US-based journalist in Turkey, last year.
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UN chief urges action to avert climate change 'catastrophe'
Jun 30, 2019 11:52UN chief Antonio Guterres said climate-related devastation was striking the planet on a weekly basis and warned Sunday that urgent action must be taken to avoid a catastrophe.
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Myanmar must grant citizenship to Rohingya: UN official
Jun 27, 2019 03:19A top UN investigator says Myanmar must grant citizenship to Rohingya Muslims, who have fled genocide in the Buddhist-majority country and who are currently living squalidly in neighboring Bangladesh.
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Saudi Khashoggi investigation fails to name who ordered murder: UN expert
Jun 27, 2019 00:33A senior United Nations official says the investigation that Saudi Arabia carried out into the murder of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October has failed to examine who ordered the killing and ignored the primary suspects.