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Israeli 2018 killings in Gaza may constitute war crimes: UN probe
Feb 28, 2019 12:12A UN Human Rights Council-mandated investigation into Israel's deadly crackdown on the 2018 anti-occupation rallies in the Gaza Strip says the regime’s forces may have perpetrated “war crimes” or “crimes against humanity”in the campaign against Palestinians.
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UAE abusing, denying treatment to terminally-ill female detainee, HRW says
Feb 27, 2019 02:56Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are mistreating and denying adequate medical care to a jailed terminally-ill Emirati woman.
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Over 80,000 kids under the age of five have died of starvation in Yemen, UN chief says
Feb 27, 2019 01:35United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says tens of thousands of children under the age of five have died of starvation in Yemen ever since Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies launched an atrocious military aggression against the impoverished country nearly four years ago.
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Trump picks envoy to Canada Kelly Craft for UN ambassador
Feb 23, 2019 03:14US President Donald Trump has nominated Kelly Craft, currently the US ambassador to Canada, to replace Nikki Haley as Washington's envoy to the UN.
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'Yellow Vests' rally in front of UN office in Geneva
Feb 20, 2019 15:31Around a thousand 'Yellow Vest' protesters from France and Switzerland gathered in front of the United Nations office in Geneva to denounce the violence of the French police during Yellow Vest demonstrations.
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UN warns of worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza
Feb 16, 2019 11:56The United Nations has warned that the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip is deteriorating due to a decade-long blockade by Israel on the Palestinian enclave, calling for an “immediate” end to the crisis.
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New UN special envoy hopes to convene Syrian constitutional committee soon
Feb 15, 2019 11:33United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen hopes to convene the first session of a UN-sponsored Syrian Constitutional Committee in the Swiss city of in Geneva “as soon as possible” early next year in a bid to begin a viable peace process to the country's nearly eight-year-old conflict.
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UN Security Council condemns ‘in strongest terms’ attack on IRGC forces
Feb 15, 2019 09:45The United Nations Security Council has condemned “in the strongest terms” a “heinous and cowardly” terrorist attack in southeastern Iran, which killed 27 IRGC personnel and wounded 13 others Wednesday.
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Wikileaks reveals US military use of IMF, World Bank as “unconventional” weapons
Feb 13, 2019 09:35This “US coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the US government to bend countries to its will, says MintPress writer Whitney Webb in her article titled: Wikileaks Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons”.
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UN court to rule on Iran’s $2bn worth of frozen assets in US
Feb 13, 2019 08:01The top court of the United Nations at The Hague will rule Wednesday on an appeal by Iran to redeem more than $2 billion in frozen assets in the US which is trying to clog any artery of livelihood of Iranians.