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Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia © Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Russia has decided to halt discussions of a United Nations Security Council report on North Korea, due to disagreement on some of its points and concern over parts of it being leaked before publication, Moscow’s UN envoy has said. Russia has blocked the […]

Italy plans to ask the EU to rotate the ports that accept migrants rescued at sea. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFP Rome will on Thursday ask the European Union to rotate the ports where migrants rescued at sea disembark, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta said, with France and Spain expected to top the list. Trenta will put the […]

Russia’s foreign minister is the latest official to warn the US against using a possible chemical weapons provocation to justify a new strike against Syrian forces. He said Moscow warned the West not to play with fire in Syria. Sergey Lavrov reiterated the warning that a staged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Idlib province may […]

U.S. President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Aug. 30, 2018. (AFP Photo) In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider withdrawing from the World Trade Organization if “they don’t shape up,” in a […]

The Trump administration is reportedly accusing hundreds of Hispanics living along the U.S.-Mexico border of having fraudulent birth certificates, stripping some of their passports and throwing their citizenship into question. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that cases it examined and interviews with immigration attorneys suggest a dramatic increase in immigration enforcement and a decrease in the number […]

Among the victims of the crash were fifteen members of the country’s armed forces and three civilians, according to state-affiliated news agency Fana. All passengers onboard the ET-AIU aircraft died in the crash, which occurred in the Eastern Shoa zone, less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa, ENA report stated. The crash occurred in the morning […]

© Stringer, AFP | Yemenis dig graves for children killed when their bus was hit during a Saudi-led coalition air strike that targeted the Dahyan market the previous day in the Huthi rebels’ stronghold province of Saada on August 10, 2018. A Saudi-led coalition battling in Yemen on Wednesday dismissed as inaccurate a report by […]

UNICEF A child sitting at a desk in a school that was attacked, in Idlib, Syria. 2016. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the growing risk of a humanitarian catastrophe should a full-scale military operation take place in Syria’s war-battered Idlib province. According to a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Mr. Guterres said that “any […]

Aung San Suu Kyi has missed several opportunities to speak publicly about the Rohingya issue [AP]  Outgoing UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has said that Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over her country’s military’s campaign against the Rohingya last year. Hussein told the BBC that her attempts to […]

© Global Look Press/ Ropi An Italian doctor, who is reportedly facing disciplinary action after saying migrants should be “drowned,” has been lambasted on social media, with furious commentators slamming her as a “hypocrite” and demanding her sacking. The doctor, from the central Italian region of Umbria, shocked the public when she posted on the […]