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WHO: Air pollution kills 7mn a year, toughens guidelines
Sep 22, 2021 12:57The World Health Organization strengthened its air quality guidelines on Wednesday, saying air pollution was now one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, causing seven million premature deaths a year.
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Taliban ask to address UN General Assembly, name new envoy
Sep 22, 2021 05:48The Taliban have demanded representation at UN General Assembly’s high-level meeting of world leaders this week, challenging the credentials of Afghanistan’s former UN envoy.
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Iran urges UNHCR to address crisis in Afghanistan
Sep 22, 2021 02:22Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to play a more active role in the settlement of the critical humanitarian conditions in Afghanistan.
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US efforts to impose hegemony have ‘failed miserably’: President Raeisi
Sep 21, 2021 21:03President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says the US efforts to impose hegemony on other countries have “failed miserably,” and that Washington’s hegemonic system lacks credibility.
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Guterres urges China, US to fix 'completely dysfunctional' relationship ahead of UN summit
Sep 20, 2021 09:25United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has voiced concern over another potential Cold War between the United States and China, urging the world’s two major economic powers to fix their “completely dysfunctional” relationship as soon as possible.
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Yemen calls UN chief’s remarks over execution of assassins 'politically motivated'
Sep 20, 2021 02:41A senior official of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has dismissed remarks made by the UN secretary-general in response to the execution of nine men accused of killing a senior Yemeni leader in 2018.
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FM to visit New York, has no plans to meet US officials: Spokesman
Sep 19, 2021 09:04Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will travel to New York to attend the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
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Iran’s foreign minister to visit US for UNGA 76
Sep 19, 2021 02:31Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian will travel to New York on Monday to take part in the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations, a spokesman said.
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Environmental threats rapidly becoming 'single greatest challenge to human rights': UN
Sep 16, 2021 15:46The planetary crisis is "impacting a broad range of rights, including the rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, and even life itself," said the U.N.'s top rights expert.
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Iran urges end to West's sanctions on Syria, looting of resources
Sep 16, 2021 04:39An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has called for an immediate end to Western countries' unilateral sanctions against Syria and their looting of the Arab country’s resources in a bid to help improve the humanitarian situation there.