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Coalition carries out air raids on ‘Houthi military targets’ after Houthis launched armed drones at Saudi Arabia.
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Protester fatally shot in the neck in Mandalay and an NLD official was stabbed and killed by pro-military mob in Magway.
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An executive order from US President Joe Biden gave the green light to block the transfer indefinitely, Reuters reports.
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Wasted food in 2019 was roughly equal to 23 million fully loaded 40-tonne trucks, according to UN research.
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Agnes Callamard and Irene Khan say Kremlin critic’s poisoning was meant to send a ‘sinister warning’ to quash dissent.
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Ten years into Syria’s devastating war, the country’s peace prospects have never been gloomier.
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Ambassador appeals to UN to provide safety, security for Myanmar people as police crack down on anti-coup protesters.
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India’s coastguard finds 81 survivors and eight dead on boat crammed with Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea.
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Secretary of State Blinken says Washington hopes to return to the rights body after Donald Trump’s withdrawal in 2018.
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Sri Lanka subjected to ‘unprecedented propaganda campaign’, foreign minister says in video address to the UNHRC.
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New UN ambassador faces diplomatic task turning around US leadership at United Nations after Trump era.
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US President Joe Biden has committed to multilateralism, but what path will his administration take at the UN?
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Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio, a policeman and their driver killed after a UN convoy was attacked in eastern DRC.
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US president says he is ‘determined to re-engage’, in reversal of Donald Trump’s isolationist foreign policy.