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UN urges Baghdad to halt all mass executions, noting that more than 40 prisoners have been executed since October.
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Guterres’ warning comes as the US threatens to blacklist the Houthis, raising fears aid delivery will be blocked.
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Agencies planning for possible arrival of 200,000 people fleeing violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray in the...
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Treasury Department says it blacklisted a Russian construction company and a North Korean company...
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Tehran’s UN ambassador says rival Saudi Arabia is looking for an excuse to build nuclear weapons and blaming Iran.
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Agreement follows UN-sponsored talks held in Brega with the head of the National Oil Corporation.
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Nickolay Mladenov ‘very concerned’ by Israel’s decision to resume construction in occupied East Jerusalem.
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Tripoli-based government warns last month’s ceasefire could be ‘in peril’ after rival forces stage live fire exercises.
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Report says Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain in violation of human rights due to punitive measures against Doha.
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Felicien Kabuga is accused of creating Hutu militia group and using his media company to incite people to murder.
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The UNSMIL-led dialogue that opened on Monday follows months of relative calm in war-torn Libya.
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Statement backing court follows US move to sanction two top ICC officials over war crimes investigation into US troops.
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China, Japan and South Korea have pledged to slash carbon emissions to net zero.
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The US suspended probes into imports it suspected to be slave-made because of staff and data shortages, a report found.
