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China asks UN Security Council to discuss Kashmir this week
UNITED NATIONS: China yesterday backed Pakistan’s request for the United Nations Security Council to discuss India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, asking for the body to meet behind closed doors today or tomorrow, diplomats said.
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UN: Sri Lankan laws applied discriminately
COLOMBO: A United Nations (UN) expert said on Friday some Sri Lankan laws are “frequently applied” in a discriminatory manner and urged the government to address the root causes of public protests by treating everyone equally. President Maithripala Sirisena’s government during its
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US blocks UN rebuke of Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes
UNITED NATIONS: The US blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa yesterday to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats said. Israel said the 10 apartment
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‘North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction violate UN resolutions’
WASHINGTON: North Korea’s entire weapons of mass destruction programme violates United Nations Security Council resolutions, said the US State Department when asked about recent missile launches by Pyongyang. “I think the entire North Korean WMD programme, it’s in conflict with
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Risk of nuclear war now highest since WW2, UN says
GENEVA: The risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since World War Two, said a senior United Nations (UN) security expert, calling it an ‘urgent’ issue that the world should take seriously. UN Institute for Disarmament Research
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Probe torture in Indian Kashmir, United Nations told
Tens of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir have been subjected to torture in the past three decades, according to a report released Monday by two prominent human rights groups which called for a UN investigation. The report said at
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Address ship seizure by ‘gangster’ US: Pyongyang tells UN chief
PYONGYANG: North Korea urged the United Nations (UN) secretary general Antonio Guterres to deal with the ‘illegal’ seizure of one of its cargo ships by the US. “This act of dispossession clearly indicates that the US is a gangster country
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Iran: We can easily hit US ships in the Gulf
DUBAI: In a sharp rebuke against the US, Iran said that it could “easily” hit U.S. warships in the Gulf, the latest in days of sabre-rattling between Washington and Tehran, while its top diplomat worked to counter US sanctions and
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Wisma Putra: Malaysia officially out of the Rome Statute
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has received the confirmation from the United Nations (UN) on its withdrawal from the instrument of accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The notice, dated May 15, from the UN was posted on Wisma
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Release our cargo ship, N Korea demands US
SEOUL: North Korea demanded that the United States release a cargo ship seized on suspicion of violating United Nations (UN) sanctions, Yonhap news agency reported. A spokesperson for North Korea’s foreign ministry made the demand in a statement carried by
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