Iran says it will be ready for new satellite launch in a few months

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Iran will be ready for a new satellite launch in a few months’ time after a failed attempt this week, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, ig...

Iran to launch another satellite in a few months

Iran satellite launch, which U.S. warned against, fails

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Iran’s bid to launch a satellite has failed, Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi said on Tuesday, after it ignored U.S. warnings to avoid...

Iran satellite launch, which U.S. warned against, fails

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Iran’s bid to put a satellite into orbit, in defiance of U.S. warnings, failed on Tuesday after the rocket carrying it did not reach escape velocity...

Iran satellite launch , Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi , U.N. Security Council

Catholic Church rejects Congo vote result, loser decries ‘coup’

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The Catholic Church rejected the official result of Congo’s presidential election on Thursday and the loser denounced a “coup”, dashing hopes th...

catholic , Congo

Rohingya end hard year still in limbo

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More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement pla...

Bangladesh , Brad Adams , Chairman Ed Royce , International Criminal Court (ICC). , Kyaw Hla Aung , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , Rosario Manalo , unicef

UN: Sexual violence in South Sudan ‘escalated dramatically’

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The U.N. official who combats sexual violence in conflict said Tuesday that such atrocities have "escalated dramatically" in South Sudan this year and...

Pramila Patten , sexual violence , south sudan , U.N

U.N. Security Council mulls Myanmar action; Russia, China boycott talks

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The U.N. Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China...

Ambassador Hau Do Suan , Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu , Bangladesh , Britain , china , France , Myanmar , Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi , Rakhine state , Rohingya Community , russia , The United States , U.N. Security Council

US deflects UN request to fund humanitarian aid for N. Korea

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The United States is resisting calls from the United Nations to provide humanitarian aid to North Korea, citing Pyongyang's continuing expansion of it...

North Korea , OCHA , United States

Nobel Peace prize winners seek justice for war rape victims

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners on Sunday called for justice for the victims of sexual violence in conflicts around the world, a day before th...

Denis Mukwege , Nadia Murad , Nobel Peace Prize , rape , sexual violence

In early 2019, UN team to begin probe of IS crimes in Iraq

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A U.N. team authorized over a year ago to investigate the massacre of the Yazidi minority and other atrocities by jihadists in Iraq will finally begin...

British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan , international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney , jihadists in Iraq , massacre of the Yazidi minority , Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad , slamic State group war crimes , U.N. rights investigators , U.N. Security Council , UN Team Probe of IS Crimes in Iraq , UNITAD

Iran says missile program defensive after U.S. test allegation

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Iran said on Sunday its missile program is defensive and not in breach of U.N. resolutions, the state news agency IRNA said, following a U.S. allegati...

Bahram Qasemi , Donald Trump , Iran , Mike Pompeo

UN experts: South Sudan beset by ‘alarming’ sexual violence

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South Sudan is beset by "alarming levels" of sexual and gender-based violence and a desperate humanitarian situation, including severe food shortages,...

President Salva Kiir , Riek Machar , South Sudan ethnic violence

Russia resists Western calls to free captured Ukrainian ships

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Russia resisted international calls on Monday to release three Ukrainian naval ships that its border patrols had fired on and seized near Crimea at th...

russia , Ukraine , Ukrainian ship

Syrian women seek role in drafting constitution

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As the United Nations is working with local and international stakeholders to draft a new Syrian constitution, Syrian women demand a seat at the table...

kofi annan , Syrian constitution , U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , United Nations

African UN Security Council members push for AU-led peacekeepers

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A draft resolution introduced this week by the three African countries on the United Nations’ Security Council could shift peacekeeping responsibili...

Cote d’Ivoire , Equatorial Guinea , Ethiopia , United Nations

Saudi-led coalition halts Hodeidah assault as West presses for Yemen ceasefire

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The Saudi-led coalition has ordered a halt in its offensive against Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah, three sourc...

ex-president Robert Mugabe , Zimbabawe , Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa

U.N. Security Council removes Eritrea sanctions after years

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The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to lift a nearly decade-old arms embargo and targeted sanctions on Eritrea after a rapprochem...

british , British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce , Djibouti , Dutch U.N. Ambassador Karel van Oosterom , Eritrea , Ethiopia , Secretary-General Antonio Guterres , somalia , U.N. Security Council , UAE

U.N. Security Council considers lifting Eritrea sanctions next week

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The U.N. Security Council is considering lifting sanctions on Eritrea next week after a rapprochement with Ethiopia, although some members want to mai...

Chinese U.N. Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu , Djibouti , Eritrea , Ethiopia , U.N. Security Council

Saudi Arabia tells U.N. it will prosecute Jamal Khashoggi killers

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Saudi Arabia told the United Nations on Monday it would prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul cons...

Bandar Al Aiban , Jamal Khashoggi , King Salman , Saud al-Mojeb

Iran is new transit point for Somali charcoal in illicit trade taxed by militants: U.N. report

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Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars an...

Somali , The United Arab Emirates (UAE) , United Nations (UN)