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UN chief appeals for end to Saudi-led war on Yemen
Nov 03, 2018 03:36United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Yemen is teetering “on a precipice”, appealing to the international community to put an end to the Saudi war on the impoverished nation, more than three-and-a-half years after the regime and a number of its allies invaded the peninsular country.
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UN calls on US to remove Cuba sanctions
Nov 02, 2018 03:42The United Nations has condemned US sanctions against Cuba, renewing decades-long calls on Washington to remove the unilateral bans against the South American country.
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Over 7 million Yemeni children subject to 'serious' famine threat, warns UN
Nov 01, 2018 10:54The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that more than seven million children are facing a serious threat of famine in Yemen as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious aerial bombardment campaign against its crisis-hit southern neighbor.
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UN officials blast Bangladesh-Myanmar deal on Rohingya
Nov 01, 2018 10:51United Nations officials have blasted a repatriation deal struck between the governments in Bangladesh and Myanmar over the return of Rohingya Muslim refugees, saying that conditions in the northwestern state of Rakhine are “not yet conducive” for their returns.
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Norwegian diplomat becomes UN's fourth Syria envoy
Nov 01, 2018 03:19Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen has been appointed as the UN's new envoy for Syria, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Austria refuses to sign UN migration pact
Oct 31, 2018 12:40Austria said Wednesday it will not sign a United Nations migration pact that is set to be adopted in December, in order to "defend its national sovereignty."
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UN rights chief urges intl. experts to help murdered Saudi journalist’s investigation
Oct 31, 2018 02:37United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called for international experts to be involved in an independent investigation into the murder of prominent Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after visiting the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul earlier this month.
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Australians demand refugees held on Nauru, Manus be brought to country
Oct 27, 2018 09:52Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne in protest at the government’s anti-refugee policy, demanding asylum seekers, held in squalid camps on remote islands of Manus and Nauru, be brought to the country.
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Damascus government will not allow Idlib to turn into terrorist stronghold: Envoy
Oct 26, 2018 16:00Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja'afari says the incumbent Damascus government will not allow foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists to turn the embattled northwestern province of Idlib into a new haven for themselves.
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UN ‘sheriff’ Nikki Haley championed Israel at the expense of the US
Oct 23, 2018 10:09We may never know the nature of Nikki Haley’s purported ‘glamour’ at the UN, but we certainly know that, during her relatively brief stint, Haley has further diminished her country’s struggling reputation, entrenching US isolation in the world’s most vital international political body.