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World
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War in Sudan
9/19/2023 7:02:45 PM
Thousands of children are feared to be dying in Sudan as violence, disease and severe malnutrition rip through the conflict-torn country, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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World
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International
9/19/2023 3:01:43 PM
It’s Day 1 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Monday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on today, Tuesday.
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World
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International
9/18/2023 10:59:47 AM
World leaders meet Monday at the United Nations in a bid to salvage ambitious promises to lift the planet's poorest, at a time when vulnerable nations are facing a volley of crises.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
9/17/2023 3:27:00 PM
The United Nations' cultural organization conference voted Sunday to list the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which occupies the territory.
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Opinion
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9/17/2023 12:04:22 PM
Fifty years ago, on 18 September 1973, by New York’s East River, two German states joined the United Nations. This event was the result of a brief General Assembly resolution – however, it was anything but routine business in the world of diplomacy.
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World
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Region
9/14/2023 1:49:47 PM
The United Nations said Thursday that most of the thousands of deaths in Libya's flood disaster could have been averted if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/13/2023 6:32:25 PM
United Nations Sudan envoy Volker Perthes on Wednesday announced his resignation, amid tensions with Khartoum as the country approaches five months of fighting between the nation's army and a paramilitary group.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
9/12/2023 8:18:34 PM
Sudanese paramilitaries killed at least 17 civilians Tuesday in northern Khartoum, a medical source said, as the United Nations warned the conflict between two rival generals has "broken the nation".
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/12/2023 8:00:19 PM
The presence of the AU in G20 gatherings will be a chance to press wealthy nations, and the world’s worst polluters, to keep their word, instead of simply delivering well-crafted speeches with lots of hot air.
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World
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Region
9/11/2023 6:52:25 PM
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday he was concerned the international community was losing interest in holding Iran to account over its advancing nuclear programme.
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World
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Region
9/10/2023 3:50:22 PM
The United Nations special envoy for Syria Sunday urged donors not to reduce their funding as the war-torn country's economic crisis spirals.
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World
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International
9/10/2023 11:42:53 AM
Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021.
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World
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International
9/9/2023 3:31:27 PM
G20 leaders meeting Saturday failed to commit to a phase-out of polluting fossil fuels, a requirement deemed "indispensable" just a day earlier by the United Nations to achieve a net-zero goal.
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World
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International
9/7/2023 8:44:21 PM
From the fight against poverty to education access, from political representation to economic opportunity, the world is "failing women and girls," the United Nations warned in a report on gender equality released Thursday.
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World
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Region
9/7/2023 2:19:11 PM
The United Nations has called for an investigation into the forced stripping of five Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers during a raid on their home in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
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Business
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Tech
9/7/2023 10:54:51 AM
The United Nations called on Thursday for strict rules on the use of AI tools such as viral chatbot ChatGPT in classrooms, including limiting their use to older children.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
9/6/2023 2:28:36 PM
More than 5 million people have now been displaced by the monthslong fighting in Sudan, the United Nations’ migration agency said Wednesday as clashes between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force show no sign of easing.
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World
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Region
9/5/2023 9:31:42 AM
The United Nations' rights chief said Monday he was "alarmed" by the high number of injuries during recent clashes in Israel involving Eritrean protesters.
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World
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International
9/3/2023 12:00:24 PM
Bill Richardson, a veteran Democratic politician and former US ambassador to the United Nations who later spent decades negotiating the release of Americans detained around the world, has died at age 75, his associates said Saturday.
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World
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Region
8/29/2023 7:59:26 PM
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday urged the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to act to calm tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border to prevent a possible escalation.
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