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Iran pressing on with plans to empower women: UN envoy
Oct 22, 2021 03:43Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations highlighted the country’s determination to take the necessary measures for the empowerment of women and girls and provide the ground for them to play their important role in the society.
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Iranian envoy warns of Israel’s destabilizing policies, illegal practices
Oct 22, 2021 03:28An Iranian ambassador to the United Nations urged the international community and the UN Security Council to hold the Zionist regime accountable for its destabilizing policies and illegal practices in West Asia which threaten international peace and security.
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UN Security Council demands immediate ceasefire in Yemen as army closes in on Ma’rib
Oct 21, 2021 05:40Apparently worried by the Yemeni army’s rapid gains in the battle to liberate the strategic city of Ma’rib, the UN Security Council has called for an urgent ceasefire across Yemen and an end to the army’s advances toward the last stronghold of Saudi-backed mercenaries.
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Colin Powell: US general leaves behind a bloody legacy in West Asia
Oct 20, 2021 17:15Colin Powell leaves behind a bloody legacy in West Asia - most notoriously his speech to the United Nations in 2003 in which he promoted false intelligence while making the case for the invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
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Yemen suffering from ‘systematic looting’ of oil wealth by Saudi-led coalition mercenaries: Yemen Petroleum Company
Oct 20, 2021 15:13The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says member countries of the Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen are looting the impoverished country's oil reserves, urging the UN to take action to alleviate the sufferings of Yemeni people.
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UN envoy slams Israel’s land grab policies in West Bank, siege on Gaza
Oct 20, 2021 05:13The United Nations Middle East envoy has censured Israel’s unlawful demolitions and settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as the crippling siege the regime has imposed on Gaza, complaining of a lack of progress in efforts to achieve a so-called two‑state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Israel ‘unfounded’ allegations aim to cover up regime’s threat to world: Iran
Oct 20, 2021 03:51Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has dismissed as “unfounded and irrelevant” Israel’s allegations against Tehran’s nuclear program, saying the accusations are aimed at covering up the threats posed by the regime’s nuclear weapons to the region and the world.
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Protracted war in Yemen has killed or maimed 10,000 children: UNICEF
Oct 19, 2021 10:59The protracted war in Yemen has killed or maimed at least 10,000 children since the conflict began in March 2015, which is equivalent to four children every day, the UN children’s agency says.
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Did the United Nations just abandon Yemen?
Oct 17, 2021 06:15Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the U.N. Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. For nearly four years, this investigative group examined human rights abuses suffered by Yemenis whose basic rights to food, shelter, safety, health care and education were horribly violated, all while they were bludgeoned by Saudi and U.S. air strikes, drone attacks, and constant warfare since 2014.
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Rights group urges revision of UN-Bangladesh deal on Rohingya refugees
Oct 15, 2021 12:53A human rights group has urged the United Nations (UN) and Bangladesh to revise a recent deal over the relocation of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote, inhospitable island.