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UN launches $5bn aid appeal for Afghanistan amid worsening crisis
Jan 11, 2022 08:24The United Nations (UN) has announced the launch of a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan to avert a major humanitarian crisis in the South Asian country.
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Calling Omicron 'mild' a mistake, warns WHO
Jan 07, 2022 03:33The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization insisted Thursday.
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Syrian envoy to UN says Western states fabricate lies on Syria’s cooperation with OPCW
Jan 06, 2022 12:35Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh has affirmed Damascus’ condemnation of the use of chemical weapons, anywhere, anytime by anyone and under any circumstances, saying Western states fabricate lies on his country's cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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Saudi-led coalition prevents another fuel ship heading for Hudaidah from docking at Yemen
Jan 05, 2022 13:11The Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen has banned a new ship carrying fuel and heading for the strategic port city of Hudaidah from docking at Yemen, amid crippling fuel shortage in the country.
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China slams Gen. Soleimani’s assassination as another US ‘war crime’
Jan 04, 2022 14:20China has slammed the 2020 assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as yet another “war crime” committed by the United States.
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Iran urges UN Security Council to hold US, Israel accountable for Gen. Soleimani assassination
Jan 03, 2022 08:28Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has urged the UN Security Council to hold the United States and the Israeli regime responsible for the assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror Commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.
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Iran urges UN General Assembly to issue condemnatory resolution on Lt. Gen. Soleimani assassination
Jan 02, 2022 02:52Iran has called on the United Nations General Assembly to issue a resolution condemning the US assassination of the country’s top anti-terror Commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani to safeguard international peace and uphold human rights.
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Yemen calls on UN Security Council to hold Saudi Arabia, its arms suppliers to account for devastating war
Dec 30, 2021 14:07Yemeni Foreign Minister in the National Salvation Government Hisham Sharaf Abdullah has called upon the UN Security Council to hold Saudi Arabia and its arms suppliers to account in accordance with the international law over their war crimes in the crisis-stricken Arab country.
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‘Threat to civilian lives rising’: UN’s Yemen envoy decries Saudi escalation
Dec 28, 2021 15:23The United Nations special envoy for Yemen has strongly condemned Saudi Arabia’s military escalation against various targets across the impoverished country, including the capital Sana’a.
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Yemen announce temporary resumption of UN flights into Sana’a days after Saudi attack
Dec 28, 2021 09:18Yemen’s civil aviation authority has announced a temporary resumption of aid flights by the United Nations to Sana’a International Airport, a week after Saudi aerial assaults put the facility out of operation.