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US backers of Paris accord set up camp at UN climate talks
Dec 08, 2018 11:56Hundreds of US cities, states, businesses and churches have set up a camp at the UN climate talks in Poland in an effort to show that many people in the United States remain committed to curbing global warming despite the stance of US President Donald Trump.
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US fails to slam N Korea at UN General Assembly
Dec 08, 2018 09:52The US has abandoned an attempt to hold a UN Security Council session to slam North Korea’s human rights record after failing to muster enough support for the bid.
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Iran: Zionist entity root of Middle East conflict
Dec 07, 2018 08:16Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations has described the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories as the root of all existing conflicts and crises in the Middle East region.
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UN hopes for removal of Saudi blockade on Yemen as peace talks begin
Dec 07, 2018 03:27The United Nations has called for the immediate removal of Saudi Arabia’s blockade on Yemen as talks to end the ongoing war against the impoverished country begin in Sweden.
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US fails to condemn Hamas at UN General Assembly
Dec 07, 2018 03:19A US-sponsored draft resolution seeking to condemn Palestinian resistance group Hamas at the United Nations General Assembly has failed to gain a majority vote.
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UN-backed peace talks on Yemen kick off in Sweden
Dec 06, 2018 09:47A round of talks between delegations from Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed government open in Sweden under the auspices of the UN in an effort to find a political solution to the Yemen conflict and end a devastating Riyadh-led war on the country.
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UN wants international probe into 'awful' Khashoggi murder
Dec 06, 2018 02:40With more than two months into the killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has stressed the necessity of an international investigation to identify those responsible for the “awful” murder at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.
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UN chief pushes for constructive Western Sahara talks
Dec 05, 2018 11:24UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all parties meeting to discuss the long-running Western Sahara dispute this week in Geneva to be constructive and avoid imposing preconditions for formal talks.
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Yemen's Ansarullah, Saudi-led coalition reach prisoner exchange deal
Dec 04, 2018 09:04An Ansarullah movement’s official says the Saudi-led coalition and militants fighting on its behalf in Yemen have signed a UN-brokered deal for exchanging prisoners with the Ansarullah movement, prior to the peace negotiations due to be launched in Sweden.
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World ‘way off course’, UN warns at crunch climate summit
Dec 03, 2018 13:00The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations has warned as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming.