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UN ends Mali peacekeeping mission at government request
Jul 01, 2023 09:58The United Nations Security Council has voted to end a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali after the country’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop called the operation a "failure" and demanded its immediate halt.
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Russia urges UN Security Council expansion to counter Western dominance
Jun 30, 2023 14:12Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia has called for the expansion of the United Nations Security Council to include more non-Western countries.
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Macron urges parents to keep kids off streets, blames social media for fueling unrest
Jun 30, 2023 11:41French President Emmanuel Macron has urged parents to keep teenagers at home to quell the unrest spreading across the country, calling on social media to stop fuelling what he described as "copycat" violence.
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UN: Recruitment of children by US-backed militants in Syria on the rise
Jun 30, 2023 10:17Foreign-sponsored militant groups in Syria have recruited a growing number of children within their ranks even as fighting in most parts of the war-wracked country is winding down, according to a UN report.
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Minister urges UN members to share Iran's refugee costs
Jun 29, 2023 03:20Iran's interior minister has called on the United Nations member states to start sharing the refugee costs that the Islamic Republic has been left to handle at the height of the Western sanctions targeting Tehran.
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Iran takes Canada to UN’s top court for breaching Tehran’s state immunity
Jun 29, 2023 02:44Iran has launched legal proceedings at the UN’s top court against Canada for breaching Tehran’s state immunity by designating the country a sponsor of terrorism under “false and wrongful” allegations.
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UN calls for immediate halt to 'wanton killings' in Sudan's Darfur
Jun 25, 2023 05:06The United Nations has called for immediate action to stop "wanton killings" of people fleeing the Darfur region of western Sudan, saying thousands of bodies remain unburied in the streets and inside homes in the war-torn region.
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Tehran dismisses US claim of Russia’s use of Iranian drones in Ukraine war
Jun 24, 2023 04:36Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has dismissed the latest claim by the United States and its allies regarding Russia’s use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war.
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UN: Situation ‘getting out of control’ in West Bank due to Israeli violence
Jun 24, 2023 02:56The United Nations human rights chief has warned the situation in the occupied West Bank is “getting out of control” due to Israel’s use of excessive force.
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UNRWA denounced Israel's killing of Palestinian school children in Jenin raid
Jun 22, 2023 07:12The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has condemned in the strongest terms the killing of Palestine school children by the Israeli military during a brutal raid on the occupied northern West Bank city of Jenin earlier this week.