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Somalia expels top UN envoy over 'meddlesome' approach
Jan 02, 2019 09:43Somalia’s UN-backed government has expelled the top United Nations envoy to the war-ravaged country, accusing him of meddling in its internal affairs after he challenged recent actions of UN-paid Somali police forces.
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UN: Israel martyred 295 Palestinians, injured 29,000 in 2018
Dec 30, 2018 11:32The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented the killing of 295 Palestinians, by Israeli forces, as well as the injuring of 29,000 Palestinians in 2018.
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Palestine to apply for full UN membership early next year
Dec 26, 2018 12:29Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says Palestine would “lodge an application to gain full state membership at the United Nations” in January.
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Sporadic clashes reported in Hudaydah ahead of truce committee meeting
Dec 26, 2018 08:02Fresh clashes have been reported between Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and militants loyal to the country’s former Saudi-backed regime in Hudaydah ahead of a UN-organized joint committee meeting meant to monitor the ceasefire in the strategic Red Sea port city.
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UN adopts resolution in favor of Syria’s sovereignty over occupied Golan Heights
Dec 24, 2018 02:41The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution on the permanent sovereignty of Syria over natural resources of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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UN advance team arrives in Yemen’s Aden to monitor ceasefire in Hudaydah: Officials
Dec 22, 2018 17:04An advance team of the United Nations has arrived in Yemen with the task of monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah recently agreed by the two warring parties, namely Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed government, local officials say.
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Libyan army demands UN investigation into 'two weapons shipments from Turkey'
Dec 20, 2018 08:24The Libyan National Army has called on the United Nations Security Council to launch an immediate investigation into what it says are two shipments of military hardware from Turkey to the North African country.
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WFP to cut food aid for Gaza, West Bank
Dec 19, 2018 15:02The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) says it would cut food aid to around 190,000 impoverished Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank - half of all its recipients there- due to funding shortages.
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Iran, Russia, Turkey agree to ramp up efforts aimed at Syrian constitutional committee
Dec 19, 2018 02:52The Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and Turkey have agreed to step up efforts aimed at convening the first session of a UN-sponsored Syrian Constitutional Committee early next year in a bid to begin a viable peace process to the country's seven-year-old conflict.
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Yemen’s Hudaydah calm as rival parties begin to observe truce
Dec 18, 2018 09:32Fighting has subsided in Yemen’s Hudaydah, hours after a United Nations (UN)-brokered ceasefire between warring sides took effect in the flashpoint port city.