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The United Nations chief hailed Monday's two-day extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gazaas a "glimpse of hope.""It's a…
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WASHINGTON: State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according…
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GENEVA: Many of the Afghan families being driven out of Pakistanhave no homes to return to and will struggle to feed themselves through…
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KINSHASA: The UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo said on Wednesday that it had signed a withdrawal plan for its troopsin the central…
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in a virtual summit of the BRICSgroup of nations on Tuesday to discuss the…
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Hundreds of foreigners working in Myanmar, including UNagency staff, have been moved to safety as an insurgency against military rule…
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YANGON: Renewed fighting this week between Myanmar's military and an ethnic minorityarmed group has displaced more than 26,000 people in…
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GENEVA: The Gaza war loomed over a regular UN review of Germany's human rights record on Thursday with numerous mainly Muslim countries…
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SAKE: Many Congolese accuse UN forces of failing in their mission and want them to leave, but the peacekeepers deployed for the new "…
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UNITED NATIONS: Fifteen UNpeacekeepers in a convoy withdrawing from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali were injured when vehicles hit…
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TEHRAN: An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said. A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said…
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NEW DELHI: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu justified the killing of Gaza residents during the Israel-Hamasconflict by…
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By Staff The Associated Press Posted October 26, 2023 7:19 pm…
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CAIRO: The United Nations is hoping a second convoy of trucks will be sent into Gaza on Sunday under a light inspection system that will…
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GENEVA: The new head of the UN migration agency on Monday voiced concern that the deaths of migrants and refugeesin the Mediterranean…
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Over 88,000 people have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh and the total could reach 120,000, said a U.N. refugee agency…
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UNITED NATIONS: More than 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterraneanto Europe so far in 2023, a UN High…
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GENEVA: UyghurCongress president Dolkun Isa was interrupted twice by the Chinese as he began speaking in a general debate during the…
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UNITED NATIONS: It's one of the United Nations' more obscure bodies, with no space to call its own within the riverside headquarters. And…
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BEIJING: China's Vice President Han Zheng said the country is committed to opening itself wider to the world and will always be a member…
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